Word: duvalierization
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For the first time in 29 years, the Caribbean's poorest people had spoken in a free and fair national election. The occasion: the selection of 41 delegates to a 61-member commission charged with writing Haiti's 23rd constitution. The voting was held on schedule, but less than 10...
But the unrest surrounding the sudden overthrow of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's regime in February has kept travelers away from Haiti, and last week the 89-year-old hotel closed its doors. All its furnishings are being put up for sale, but modern-day Haitians do not seem...
For more than a generation, Haitians lived with the fear that they could be arrested, tortured and executed at any moment. The reign of terror was directed by a ruling clique whose armed squads were on call for round-the- clock executions like some killing machine. Although violence is still...
The island's television and radio stations carried live broadcasts of the trial of Luc Desyr, 62, chief of secret police for Baby Doc and before him for his father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who died in 1971. The trial, on charges that included illegal arrest, torture and murder, provided...
After a noisy, 18-hour marathon trial that ended at 4:25 in the morning, Desyr was convicted of killing Jean-Jacques Dessalines Ambroise, a union activist, and his pregnant wife, and of torturing Jean-Jacques's brother Emmanuel, in 1965. Ambroise's cousin Alix, who was arrested along with...