There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.