i have never been for aristide politically because that is not for me. i wasn't for nelson mandela in south africa. i was for affording the south african people and the haitian people the right to choose for themselves who their political leaders would be. the administration now has of course embraced elections in haiti that banned the largest political party from participating. that is not democracy. we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. president obama took some pains to try to block president aristide's returned to his country from south africa. that is a violation of the international covenant on civil and political rights which the united states is a part of. we cannot block people from leaving the country nor can you block them from returning to their own country. and so if not the letter certainly the president violated the spirit of our legal binding obligation under that international human rights treaty. >> host: where is former president aristide right now? >> guest: he is in haiti. >> host: where is a living? the living? >> guest: he is back i

obama tried to strongarm the presidents of south africa to keep president aristide there. i am have a hundred points i was going to e-mail you but i can't bore mr. robinson with all my frustration but thank you again and again. >> guest: presidenthas to be applauded because he did everything to respond to president aristide's which is to go home. he and his wife mildred and their two girls had been in south africa for a long time. the south african government had been a wonderful host but they wanted to go home. and can't read president obama's mind. i don't know why he expended energy and resources trying to to block president aristide's homecoming. as i said, it was a violation of human rights law, and sadly so. i disagreed vigorously with the president on his role in that. >> guest: i guess it wasn't as important as i thought was. when i was a small boy in grammar class i developed the diversion of grouping people by the arrangement of their facial features, some faces were constructed of eyes, mouth, nose, chins, jeeps and skulls that were vowels. the smaller number of

i have felt strongly when i was characterized as of friend of president aristide said that is not the issue. but i have never been for him politically because that is not for me. i was not for nelson mandela in south africa but i was for affording the south african people and the haitian people the right to choose for themselves and who love their political leaders would be. the administration has now embraced those elections that they and the largest political party from participating. that is not democracy. we all appreciate the process. president obama took some pains to try to block their misdeeds country from south africa that is the violation of the covenant of civil-rights of which the united states is a party you cannot block people from leaving the country or from returning to their country and. so certainly we violate the spirit of a legal and binding obligation under that human-rights treaty. >> host: where is former president aristide now? >> guest: he is in haiti haiti, he is back in his home and is operating the school he operated before but he is doing service work >> h

i sit down like to speak to president aristide he sat here. that of aristide? she's not here. then the line was cut. tavis smiley was to go to haiti the next day to interview the president might wife who was working for haiti at this time along with former congressman ron, was making the arrangements. tavis smiley call to save the trip was off that ron just called me to say that he had just spoken to it secretary of state powell and he said the slugs, the rebels for coming to port-au-prince the next day to kill the president. the of rabil hit -- liberal head already said he would do that on sunday the 29th of february was his birthday and he planned to kill the president on his birthday. and he also said we will do nothing to protect or defend the president. the president's security agents. >> the steel foundation had already checked to see if the u.s. would do anything to defend the of the sea to help control the rebels. the u.s. said they would not. the president was all along. the helicopter pilot in spite of the rabil was trained by americans in the dominican republic and

corporate interests fast forward to nine hundred ninety when john bircher bertrand aristide became the first democratically elected leader of haiti but instead of supporting haiti's first democracy the u.s. immediately acted to undermine it what a shock during the bush administration and dearest good leaders were appointed to key diplomatic positions infrastructure initiatives were terminated the haitian national police was deterred because of the weapons and bargo and at the same time a little think tank in washington d.c. called the international republican institute or the i r i was hard at work in haiti with a three million dollar budget to quote promote democracy there it began to unite areas steeds political potence opponents that would eventually overthrow his government and it's more than a coincidence that these same opponents were trained at the school. america is a school notorious for educating some the most ruthless dictators in the world all of which heightened haiti's political crisis now keep in mind the ira is the same organization that also tried to back a coup agains

terrain while eluding the enemy stood near as cold and cut through the uniforms and blasted down aristide'sthere are now so weak from hunger, sickness, and despair that the several miles had turned into a slow and grueling journey. some of the men who volunteered to help nervously fingered the pieces parachute. the others continued. then at half past and in the sudden roar of multiple planes filled the air. seconds later three lightning fires flew so low over the airfield that there really group huddled in the hills. one of britain's most famous and durable bombers, machine guns poised for action suddenly appeared as well. the ready to provide cover. not only with the americans coming to the rescue, so with the british. more twin-engine beech creates came until 21 planes fill the gray sky. the men and women were transfixed. the most glorious sight there never seen. none of them had expected so many planes. amazed at the effort being made to save them that there were even more effective by the stark reality that they cannot signal planes to land. with each passing second there hopes of rescu