Wyclef Takes Outrage Over Disqualification to the Web

Wyclef Jean has taken his frustrations about being disqualified from the Haitian presidential election to the Internet, releasing a song, “Prison for the CEP,” via Twitter with a call for “equal rights and justice.” His anger is falling on mostly deaf ears since the decisions of the council are final. Still, he says he’ll challenge the ruling, which concluded that residency issues barred him from running.

Newsweek enlisted two Creole speakers to translate the song, which was recorded in the Haitian dialect to respond

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