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Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, is Maud and Lillian Presley Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of The Uses of Haiti and Pathologies of Power.

From the London Review dated 15 April 2004

Who removed Aristide?

“We know that US funds overtly financed the opposition, but did they also fund, even indirectly, the rebellion, which featured high-powered US weapons only a year after twenty thousand such weapons were promised to the Dominican Republic? The players on the Haitian side fall into one of two categories: first, Haiti’s business elite, including those who own the media, and then the former military and paramilitaries – the people who were involved in the 1991-94 coup. Some have been in jail since then for murder, drug trafficking and crimes against humanity. Today, every single one of them is out.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor (2003)
  • Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (2001)
  • Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence by Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors and Janie Simmons (1997)
  • The Uses of Haiti (1994)

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Who removed Aristide? · 15 April 2004