It may well be an impossible dream. Haiti’s poor don’t just demand retribution for the 3,000 victims of the junta that held power during Aristide’s exile. Their legacy is a century of slavery and nearly two centuries of injustice - political, social and economic. They want sewers, schools, hospitals. Aristide is bound to disappoint them. “Getting rid of Cedras was always going to be the easy part,” said a State Department official. “The rough part comes when the expectations aren’t met, when the magic doesn’t work, when there are problems-the real problems of Haiti-that can’t be solved by another Jimmy Carter mission, or crowds waving branches, or a bunch of 19-year-old kids in Humvees. And that time is right now.” Among Aristide’s challenges:
