Word: duvalierization
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Jean-Bernard Diederich, a photographer working on this week's World story about Haiti's tragic attempt at free elections, had arrived only a few minutes earlier at L'Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a Port-au-Prince elementary ) school. What he saw was a polling place turned into a killing...
As dazed Haitians looked back on Bloody Sunday's appalling carnage, they careened between shock and despair, terror and anger. For 22 months, most of the country's 6.3 million people had dared to hope for a brighter future, one that would heal the wounds inflicted by 28 years of...
Washington is no stranger to military action in the Caribbean. U.S. Marines intervened in Haiti in 1915 after increasing civil strife, and stayed until 1934 as an army of occupation. Marines landed in the neighboring Dominican Republic in 1965. In 1983 some 1,900 U.S. soldiers and a small Caribbean...
That stark announcement crushed the last hope that Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, could move easily toward democracy. Since the overthrow of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier in February 1986, the nation has been ruled by an army-dominated provisional government headed by Lieut. General Henri Namphy. The...
The unrest that has been plaguing the country since Duvalier fled reached a peak as voting day drew near. Two presidential candidates were killed, and scattered violence took place in both the capital and in the countryside. In the week before the voting was to have taken place at least...