PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, March 1 (UPI) -- An estimated 5,000 people rallied in Port-au-Prince this week in support of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Protester Jean-Michel Porfil said the intent of the rally in the Haitian capital was to bring attention to the economic and political problems in the Caribbean island nation, along with calling for Aristide's return from exile, The Miami Herald reported Saturday.

"I believe he heard us,'' Porfil said of current Haitian President Rene Preval. "The people