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...hours later, the symbolic act of friendship was repeated in the Haitian border village of Belladére. Guns banged again, champagne glasses clicked and officials of the two republics and their ladies danced Dominican and Haitian méringues. Before the historic day was over, the two Presidents had agreed to 1) take joint measures against Communism, 2) grant tariff and other trade concessions, 3) arrange supervision of migratory workers crossing the frontier, 4) work out rules for treatment of each other's political exiles...
Since Haiti and the Dominican Republic have long been two of the world's worst neighbors, it seemed a surprising reconciliation. Back in 1937 the Trujillo soldiery massacred 20,000 migratory Haitian workers; afterwards Trujillo quietly paid the Haitian government $750,000 damages and signed a peace pact. Eleven years later, he was allowing nightly broadcasts by an exiled Haitian calling on his countrymen to revolt. Barely a year ago, after a Haitian appeal, the Organization of American States found Trujillo guilty of fomenting another plot against Haiti...
What, then, did the new agreement mean, if anything? Simply that for all their mutual hatred and distrust, 3,000,000 Haitians and 2,000,000 Dominicans must go on living together on their island. "We cannot forget the past," said a Haitian sadly last week, "but we must make an effort to establish peace...
...Pencil of God, by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin. The decline & fall of a Haitian businessman whose only serious weakness was women (TIME...
Fling and consequences form the action of The Pencil of God, an engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting...