Word: duvalierization
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Last Friday night Baby Doc Duvalier, the tyrannical "President for Life" of Haiti, left the country for a gilded exile on a U.S. Airforce jet. The Duvalier dynasty, supported for 28 years by a U.S. government that placed more value on supposed stability than decency, had finally collapsed under the...
The U.S. government supported the Duvalier family from its first days in power; we should do what we can now to make amends. The State Department's role in convincing Baby Doc to seek exile was an admirable first step. Having removed the dictator, the U.S. should use its considerable...
The State Department must also try to convince other countries not to give Duvalier asylum unless he returns the hundreds of millions of dollars he stole from the people of Haiti.
On another foreign policy issue, the President said the United States' only involvement in the downfall of Haitian President-for-Life Jean Claude Duvalier was in "providing an airplane" to fly him into exile in France. He said Duvalier did not seek advice about his departure, and the United States...
Reagan sidestepped a question of whether the United States would resume aid to Haiti, suspended because of human rights abuses under the Duvalier regime. "We hope we can be of help" in restoring democracy under the new ruling junta, he said.