Word: au
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities, particularly Port-au-Prince with its 250,000 inhabitants, are the most sordid parts of Haiti. In the sprawling market places, you have to breathe through your mouth to avoid the smell and clench your teeth so the flies can't get in. Beggars are everywhere and swarm around you. Children follow you holding out their hands for money. A cripple throws himself in your path, clinging shakily to his crutch, and without saying a word expresses the horror of human degradation...
Fearing the worst and genuinely disgusted with Duvalier, the U.S. withdrew its AID mission in August. Washington maintains a small embassy staff in Port-au-Prince and terms its relations with Duvalier "cool but correct...
...students who graduate each year from the university in Port-au-Prince, 1000 go into law; for law is the road to politics, and politics is the source of wealth...
From this tradition of government, in which the only policies are survival and enrichment, a society of two world has emerged. One is the small and largely self-contained world of Duvalier--Papa Doc has not been outside of Port-au-Prince since 1963 and rarely appears in public--and his government. It is the world of upper classes and the few members of the intellectual and commercial elite who have not fled the country, the world of Graham Greene and his comedians. But the vast majority of the Haitian people live in the other world, the world...
There is considerable missionary enthusiasm in the country. A Baptist mission settled in the hills above Port-au-Prince 20 years ago, and the Episcopal church now counts more than 30,000 Haitians among its members. In terms of education, health practices and agricultural skill, the missionary work is valuable. But missionaries have an ugly fondness for concentrating more on converting the people than on helping them. With what joy, they say, are the natives discovering that Baptism is right and voodoo is wrong, that the great god Yahweh does, in fact, exist...