Danny Glover pulls out of Haiti visit citing concerns over legitimacy of currently installed government as well as human rights concerns. I was really surprised to hear him speak passionately about the trip he was making and the work he was doing to make this cruise happen when I heard him on the local NPR station last mont. But I am equally, if not more impressed to see him take such a principled stance. When I heard he was pulling out I thought it would be for some bullshit celebrity reason. But this is pretty reasonable and must have been a big deal for him and his group to make this decision. On the other hand, it was the right thing to do and really adds to their cause even more than actually carrying through with the cruise. He manages to give a short history of the Haitian revolution and makes an interesting correlation that can't be completely without merit--it even sounds completely reasonable, even if it is not something that the US would ever accept as history proper:

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's army, and the French failure to regain control over San Domingue, as Haiti was then known, contributed to the end of French colonial ambitions in the western hemisphere. In 1803 France sold its North American province of Louisiana , a region of more than 800,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River, to the United States .