HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

12This time, Aristide accused the United States of orchestrating his downfall.He went into exile in South Africa, but returned home in March 2011.Aristide arrived back in Port-au-Prince a few weeks after the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier also returned from exile.Both men are widely seen as potential threats to Haiti’s current leadership.After Aristide was deposed for a second time, Préval was re-elected president in2006.He was head of state at the time the earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010.The exile of the intelligentsiaThe repression of freedom of speech and civil liberties by Papa Doc in the 1960s ledto an exodus of Haiti’s educated elite.Some were forced to leave for political reasons. Others saw no future for Haiti orthemselves under the Duvalier dicatatorship.Hundreds of well-educated professionals – doctors, agronomists, economists,historians, professors, teachers – left for Paris, Montreal, New York and Miami.It was a brain drain from which Haiti has never fully recovered.The political exiles of the 1960s were followed by a stream of economic exiles in the1970s and 1980s, when the level of political repression became less severe.12