Explore popular quotes and sayings by a journalist Michele Montas.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Michèle Montas is a journalist from Haiti and the former Spokesperson under UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Prior to her appointment, Montas headed the French unit of UN Radio. From 2003 to 2004, she served as the Spokesperson for UN General Assembly President Julian Robert Hunte soon after she fled to New York from Haiti.
Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.
For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.
I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.
Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.
At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army. Haiti was ostracized for almost a century. Surviving in that international context is in itself a feat.