A toast:
Huerta, Alberto
A toast When Graham Greene died in April 1991, he would have been delighted to know that, four years later, a bottle of vodka would be sitting on an altar in a Voodoo temple in Croix des Bouquets,...
...With an illiteracy rate of 87 percent, a successful war on ignorance might help push Haiti into the twenty-first century as a viable democracy...
...A toast When Graham Greene died in April 1991, he would have been delighted to know that, four years later, a bottle of vodka would be sitting on an altar in a Voodoo temple in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti, in his honor, and that a democratically elected populist priest-turned-president would have lifted Papa Doc Duvalier's condemnation of his novel, The Comedians (1966...
...It would make a good ending to an unwritten Greene novel...
...In the short time left in his term, Aristide noted, he hopes to bequeath to his people the power to read and write...
...At the conference, Bajeux delivered a lecture that would have pleased Greene: "The Metaphysics of Evil according to Graham Greene...
...Bajeux and Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, who helped arrange the conference, had known Greene since 1954...
...A.H.A.H...
...On May 26, Haiti's minister of culture, Jean-Claude Bajeux, honored Greene posthumously during the first Haitian Writers' Conference of exiled and national writers...
...the three had reconnointered on the Haitian-Dominican border in 1965...
...Aristide spoke enthusiastically about the massive literacy campaign he intends to launch...
...Later, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide welcomed participants to the palace...
...Greene's niece Louise Denny s and her husband Eric also attended, the first family members to set foot on Haitian soil...
...During a forty-minute meeting, discussion centered on eliminating the residual effects of evil...
Vol. 122 • July 1995 • No. 13
