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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/aristide-wants-to-return-to-haiti.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide says he is ready to come back from exile (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-aristide-wants-to-return-to-haiti.jpg" alt="Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide says he is ready to come back from exile (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Haitians adjusting to the sudden return of one exiled ex-president could soon have another on their hands.</p>
<p>As former dictator Jean-Claude &#8220;Baby Doc&#8221; Duvalier held court with allies at an upscale hotel, ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide sent out a letter saying he is ready to come back from six years of South African exile &#8220;today, tomorrow, at any time&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;As far as I am concerned, I am ready,&#8221; he wrote in an email distributed by supporters and posted online. &#8220;The purpose is very clear: to contribute to serving my Haitian sisters and brothers as a simple citizen in the field of education.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Aristide was ousted in 2004, leaving Haiti aboard a US plane as a small group of rebels neared the capital. His return has been a principal demand of his Fanmi Lavalas party, which has lost influence as electoral officials blocked it from participating in elections including the disputed November 28 vote now under challenge &#8211; though Mr Aristide himself has remained a widely popular figure.</p>
<p>He is two years younger than Mr Duvalier, the now 59-year-old ex-dictator he spoke against as a Roman Catholic priest in the La Saline slum. </p>
<p>Together the men represent the two main oppositional forces in Haitian politics over the last half century: stable but often brutal authoritarianism in favour of elites against charismatic populism that opponents said bordered on demagoguery.</p>
<p>According to the Duvalier camp the two men have never met. Their mutual presence in Haiti could cause long-simmering tensions to erupt.</p>
<p>Mr Aristide did not endorse a candidate in the current race and has said he would not seek office if he came back.</p>
<p>Instead he said in the letter that his return is necessary to help his countrymen and for his medical needs after six eye surgeries during his six years of exile.</p>
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