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Yvette Clarke: “Everything else we are saying here becomes moot if this government tilts toward a dictatorship.”

On the recordOctober 8, 2013
Everything else we are saying here becomes moot if this government tilts toward a dictatorship.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the importance of democracy in Haiti.

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