Seat of Power Back in Haiti With Aristide
While cameras Saturday focused on the front door of the airplane from which Jean-Bertrand Aristide was disembarking, a crew was unloading a big, blue-upholstered armchair through the rear door.
It was built by the youths of La Fanmi Se La Vi, Creole for The Family Is Life, an orphanage founded by the priest-president, who said he would never sit in a chair occupied by one of Haiti’s previous, undemocratic presidents.
When he was driven from power in a military coup in 1991, Aristide took the chair with him into exile in Washington.
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