I Ll Die With The Words On My Lips Analysis

A second story that is equally deserving of recognition is a story from Bell’s book entitled “I’ll Die with the Words on My Lips.” It is an incredible story about a journalist by the name of Lelenne Gilles. Lelenne begins her story by talking about how as she was a child, she would always be deeply disturbed by the fact that so many kids her age could not afford to go to school. She would always speak up about this and ask teachers in her school why things couldn’t be different. When she got older, she was offered a job at a radio station called Radio Cacique that was “different than other radio stations, Radio Cacique; it was a station of struggle” (Bell 68). Lelenne made it her life mission to make sure that people were informed of what was happening in Haiti so that the government could not sweep anything under the rug. “Through this radio, we waged a battle for the poor, for the factor workers in collect speech from the mouths of those who didn’t have the right to speak for themselves” (Bell 68). Lelenne remained with Radio Cacique until it was shut down by the government shortly after the exile of Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. …show more content…
The Haitian government had nothing short of a vendetta against all reporters and journalists. Because of this Lelenne had to go into hiding where she was almost discovered multiple times. At one point she even had to leave the country for about three months. Lelenne hated having to leave her country due to lack of freedoms, so she decided to return. “Eight days after Ertha Trouilot was inaugurated as president in 1990 I came back to the country. I swore to myself I would die here. No, I won’t go into exile again for anyone” (Bell