"Key observers continue to document the contemporary plight of the Haitian people and their difficulty in establishing a viable democracy and economy. These reports, written for human rights organizations on behalf of the Comission Justice et paix of the Catholic Diocese of Gonaïves, focus on the terror and repression affecting the rural area of the Artibonite around the time of the Cédras coup, and constitute an invaluable source for future historians of those years"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.