In Mexico City, on February 9, 2011 Haitian officials issued a diplomatic passport for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president and even after years in exile, he is one of the country's most popular and divisive figures.
Mr. Aristide's American lawyer, Ira Kurzban said he collected the document in the capital and stated that Mr. Aristide, after seven years of exile, mostly in South Africa "wants to come home as soon as he can".
His reappearance would represent a second stunning return for Haiti: Just three weeks ago, Jean-Claude Duvalier, the dictator known as Baby Doc, arrived unexpectedly in Port-au-Prince after being overthrown in 1986.
Both Duvalier and Aristide claim that they are interested in national reconciliation although, both are doubted by critics of their governments. Experts looking at the topic fear that the presence of the two former leaders could further destroy the country which is already struggling with cholera, tent cities created by last year's earthquake and political instability before the delayed presidential runoff on March 20.
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