Danny Glover Cancels Haiti Event, Cites Aristide Overthrow by Bush
Monday, August 16, 2004 at 02:21AM
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Actor Danny Glover backed out of a cruise
commemorating the Haitian bicentennial, saying he did not want to
appear to support the government installed after Jean-Bertrand Aristide
was ousted as president. Poet Sonia Sanchez also canceled. "Due to the
increasingly critical political situation in Haiti, which resulted in a
loss of life, oppression and incarceration of thousands of Haitians, I
have canceled my participation," Glover told The Miami Herald before
the Caribbean cruise set sail on Saturday. About 500 people paid $1,500
to $2,500 to take the seven-day cruise. [more 
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