But the white men of Europe, and of America, have shaped Haiti's history from the arrival of Columbus to the exile of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
This is partly due to the state of fragmentation in the opposition ranks, especially among the exile groups, which do not inspire confidence among fence-sitters.
But yesterday, the head of Saudi intelligence Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz, showed the news media a copy of what he said was the exile agreement.
The Saudi initiative apparently envisions a reformed Iraqi regime including some representatives of the exile community but composed mainly of the "remnants of the outgoing system".
If the U.S. State Department is opposed to the exile, let it call for Mr. Zelaya to be put on trial now that he is back in Honduras.
Now, slowly and quietly, the exile community is changing again.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Still, it's Cubans like her who may be in the best position to bridge the gap between the exile and the island if the day does come when the two communities of Cuba are finally reunited.
While the Pentagon has backed Mr Chalabi, and air-lifted him into southern Iraq, both the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have severe doubts about the exile (who left Iraq in 1958 at the age of 13), even though he helped lead an aborted CIA-sponsored plot to overthrow Saddam in the mid-1990s.
The opposition she joined was tiny, mostly confined to a few parishes in the Protestant church, heavily infiltrated by the Stasi and weakened by the systematic exile of its leaders to the West.
And from this direct line of suffering, one can begin to understand not only the continuity of the form of Jewish suffering - but the continuity the persecution of the Jews over the course of the long exile that began in 70 CE with the destruction of the Second Temple.
As with much of the literature of exile, the city itself is a character.
The general promised not to execute Mr Sharif, which may have been in his mind at the time, and held out the possibility of exile if the Saudis could guarantee that he would renounce politics.
Much like the adorable Exile video, where an urchin gives us a lay of the war-torn land, this one gives us the other side of the scuffle.
The fiscal exile has become an entrepreneurial exodus.
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Also Monday, the opposition's exile political leadership, the Syrian National Coalition, said a delegation was heading to Doha, where the Gulf state of Qatar will host a two-day Arab League summit starting Tuesday.
But the philosophical base on which Iran's theocratic edifice is built is Khomeini's velayat-e faqih, the rule of the Islamic jurist, a concept the ayatollah developed in exile in Iraq in the 1970s.
Members of the Afghan company Exile Theater are all actors from Afghanistan who fled to Pakistan when the Taliban took power.
Our correspondent says what is in question is the message such self-imposed exile sends to the outside investors that France hopes to attract.
The man who symbolized France's resistance to Nazi occupation, he led the French government in exile during World War II and headed the first government after the Liberation.
Letting rooms is the main way to earn dollars for those without relations in exile or the means to start a business.
The two women, who spent much of their childhood in exile in the US, insist the programme will not damage the Mandela name.
Mesbah-Yazdi has lived in virtual isolation for the past 20 years, holed up in de-facto exile in the Shi'ite holy center of Qom.
The Belgian government has collapsed over a referendum on the return from exile of King Leopold III.
"Faced with the choice of exile or escape, " she fled her master and found refuge in Philadelphia.
That could mean allowing the return from exile of two former prime ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
He engineered a number of classic albums including Led Zeppelin II, III and IV and the Stones' Exile On Main Street and Sticky Fingers.
He also wrote a memoir, "Light My Fire, " and a novel, "The Poet In Exile, " in which he imagines receiving messages from a Morrison-like artist who had supposedly died.
Ismaiel also tells his own story: of life in a remote village and hunger for reading, of student years in Teheran and political activism, and then later the acceptance of exile.
The objects have been stored since 1998 in Afghanistan's museum in exile in the Swiss town of Bubendorf.
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