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Article: Some Haitian Americans Troubled By Possibility of a U.S. Invasion
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 17, 1994
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Cheers of "Vive Aristide" rocked the Veye-Yo headquarters in
Miami's Little Haiti Thursday night as hundreds of Haitians watched
President Clinton's speech. But while the mood in the storefront
meeting place was jubilant, many Haitian Americans are wary, afraid
- even angry - about a U.S. invasion of their small, impoverished
homeland.
"Now that this invasion looks like it is going to happen, many
Haitian Americans have changed their minds," said Danielle Romer,
the director of Haitian Support in Miami, which runs a telephone hot
line for the community.
"Some people were in favor of it but now they realize the
danger that their family and friends will be in, and they are scared
to ...