Aristide arrives home to celebrity welcome

Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned home from seven years in exile to a celebrity welcome today, and immediately took a swipe at the decision to bar his political party from the country’s presidential election.

Addressing reporters and a Haitian public who gathered round TVs and radios throughout the country, he said the decision not to allow his Lavalas Family party disenfranchised the majority in a sharply divided nation.