I knew when Big Dave's eyes got wide and he said "get in the car NOW" that something big was happening. As we pulled away from Epidor, he told me the news... After 25 years in exile, Jean Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) has returned to Haiti. We locked the doors, rolled up the windows and headed back towards EDV.
We couldn't have been more than a block down when the manifestation hit. Sort of like an eerie parade/marching band - with tubas and percussions, and hundreds of people stopping traffic as they marched their way up the street. Even the obligatory naked man shaking his butt in the crowd.
We made it home safely, and enjoyed "Mango Mango curry-q" late into the night.
I'm not sure what Duvalier's true reasons are for returning, but I highly doubt it's to help rebuild Haiti as he claims. I suspect is has more to do with keeping Preval in power.
As it is my day off, I'm going to spend the majority of today laying low, with the kitten, and hopefully finish all the partial journal entries I've started over the past month or so...
Below are a few of the news articles that have come out in the past 24 hours...
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/01/16/haiti.duvalier/index.html?hpt=T2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/haitipoliticsduvalier
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11943820
~PJ
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