Word: duvalierization
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The last time Haitian voters participated in a national referendum was in 1971, when Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier was confirmed as the successor to his much feared father, Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Last week Baby Doc was back with a referendum intended to satisfy the U.S. that Haiti...
THE DEW BREAKER XBy Edwidge Danticat One needs a new term to describe Danticat's book: A novel-in-stories? A story-circle? In the first chapter the daughter of Haitian expats living in Brooklyn learns that her father is not, as she thought, a former prison inmate. He was...
Corpses have their own body language. Jean Vernet II's memories of Haiti under the dictatorial rule of Jean (Papa Doc) Duvalier are written in the patois of the murdered, and even today, decades later, the images of twisted limbs and fallen forms haunt him--and remind him of what...
"To disagree with Duvalier meant death. The chaos he created still stifles Haitian life," says Vernet, 49, a Haitian-American activist. In 1968 Vernet and his family fled Haiti and moved to New York City. In the aftermath of the rebel takeover of the Haitian government earlier this year, Vernet...
"In [Duvalier's] eight years of power, the onetime country doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor... His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as 'President for life' and wields unshakable control over his...