'West stokes war to prove blacks can't rule'

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Aristide says the campaign is funded by economic and political forces who have paid $60-million (about R390-million) a year - last year it was $76-million - to slur his good name and that of the world's first country to be liberated from slavery.
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"Is it because Haiti has so many economic possibilities that today they want us to be militarised, destroyed?"
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He compares the role of a head of state to that of a mother who loves and educates her children. In 1990 after the first democratic election, in which Aristide was elected president, there were only 34 secondary schools in Haiti. Now there are 138.
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He insists he does not follow any specific revolutionary theory, but he does say: "One cannot just praise the market as if the market will bring all the solutions. You need to promote human growth as well as economic growth. Tomorrow we will be happier when less people suffer from illiteracy and from Aids."
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