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7-member council of the wise

On 3/6/04 a Tripartite Council was set up to name a seven member council of the wise.  This tripartite consisted of Mr. Lesly Voltaire, Minister of Haitians Living Abroad; Mr. Paul Denis, former senator of the republic and a member of the Plate-forme Democratique; and Mr. Adama Guindo, UN Resident Coordinator in Haiti.  The seven wise men (sic) include Anne-Marie Issa, the director general of Radio Signal FM in Haiti which provided detailed coverage of the recent Aristide opposition and their demands for his resignation; Danielle Magloire, considered a member of the Human Rights sector and director of ENFOFANM, a feminist center for information and training which has spoken for the rights of Haitian women in the Dominican Republic (and she may be related to Gen. Paul Magloire but I don't have confirmation); Christian Rousseau, University; Macdonald Jean, senior priest with the Episcopalian Church which has large anti-Aristide factions; Lamartine Clermont, representative of the Catholic Church which has been very involved in government since Duvalier's days and has recently turned fairly anti-Aristide in its attempts to separate from government; Dr. Ariel Henry, representative of the Democratic Convergent opposition which I thought was Aristide's party; and Paul Emil Simon of the Lavalas Party which used to be Aristide's party but now seems pretty much in opposition to him.  It appears that the council of the wise was chosen to include several past Aristide supporting groups who no longer have loyalty to Aristide.

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