Dupuy, Alex — The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (2007) Full title: The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti

Dupuy, Alex — The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti (2007) Full title: The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti Author: Alex Dupuy Published: 2007, Rowman & Littlefield (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective series) Scope: Haiti, 1986–2006; full arc of Aristide's political career through the second overthrow and the February 2006 elections that returned René Préval to the presidency Series: Continuation and update of Dupuy's earlier Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution (1997) Chapter notes: dupuy prophet and power aristide ch notes Overview This is the most comprehensive scholarly study of the Aristide phenomenon from a political economy perspective. Dupuy — a Haitian-born sociologist at Wesleyan University, a descendant of signatories of the 1804 Act of Independence — offers a structural-dialectical analysis that refuses both the left-solidarity framing (Aristide as victim of US imperialism) and the right-liberal framing (Aristide as Caribbean Chavez/demagogue). His core intervention is that both framings obscure the same thing: the class contradictions embedded in Aristide himself, in Lavalas as a movement, and in Haiti's peripheral position within the capitalist world-system.