Word: duvalierization
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''I have absolutely no sense of guilt, no reproach whatever to myself.'' With that, the former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (''Baby Doc'') Duvalier, 35, insisted last week in an ABC interview from his rented villa on the French Riviera that he could not be blamed for the plight of his...
The most common refrain among voters was a call for change, even though the government has changed hands more than a dozen times since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship 20 years ago-and has seen 35 coups since it declared independence in 1804. The only democratically elected president to...
The general's death comes on the heels of a call by the UN for the Haitian interim government to hold elections by February 7, 2006, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the 29-year Duvalier dictatorship. The poll has already been postponed four times, and many in Haiti...
The President's attractive wife Michèle, 34, sets a highly visible example of conspicuous consumption, Duvalier-style. A former secretary, she indulges her extravagant tastes in clothes and jewelry on shopping sprees to France. In a country with a tropical climate, she has a collection of designer furs worth...
Unless Duvalier's new Cabinet moves quickly, foreign aid, which makes up a third of Haiti's $480 million annual budget, may also dry up. The U.S. is now in the process of examining Haiti's human rights record as a precondition to releasing $56 million in aid earmarked for...