Word: duvalierization
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Article 291 of Haiti's new constitution prohibits close associates of the toppled Duvalier regime from seeking public office for the next decade. Last week the Provisional Electoral Council invoked that stricture and ruled ineligible twelve of the 35 declared candidates in presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 29. Reaction was...
Volel became the second murder victim in Haiti's presidential race, the first to be held since three decades of Duvalier rule ended last year. In August, Louis Eugene Athis was hacked to death by peasants who had been wrongfully informed by local police that the candidate was a Communist...
In his 1966 novel The Comedians, Graham Greene described a similar time in Haiti: "No one dared move on the roads at night; it was the hour when only the zombies worked, or else the Tonton Macoutes." That infamous paramilitary force of Dr. Francois (Papa Doc") Duvalier and his son...
During those summer months of terror and insecurity, the presidential candidates did not campaign in the countryside. At the offices of Marc Bazin, a leading candidate who was fired in 1982 after four months as Jean-Claude Duvalier's Finance Minister, nervous guards still frisk visitors. Louis Dejoie, whose father...
Ambroise, whose brother and pregnant sister-in-law were tortured to death at Francois Duvalier's orders in 1965, believes that the council will nonetheless be able to run a respectable contest. "We are going to have this election right in the belly of the beast," he says. Many Haitians...