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Trouble In Haiti The unrest and violence in Haiti [LATIN AMERICA, March 15] seem part of a continuum that has haunted the country for 70 years. Among its most chaotic leaders was Dr. Fran?ois Duvalier, who ruled from 1957 until his death in 1971. We described "Papa Doc's" dictatorship...
Pro-Aristide, HIPJ types might realize that all that appears democratic is not gold. A quick glance at a Haitian history book will reveal that Papa Doc Duvalier was just as fairly elected as Aristide—a populist platform, even!
The nine quiet, carefully composed stories stitched together here give us the lives of nurses, janitors, hairdressers and professional funeral singers trying to balance their hopes between Haiti and its second act, America. Many have fled their island to escape bad memories--and look up in New York City to...
While the formal opposition has tried to distance itself from the armed gangs that are now fighting Haitian police for control of whole cities, Aristide's supporters see no such distinction. They brand the whole opposition movement as an attempt to turn back the clock by the Haitian elite that...
Early this May, an ambulance carrying five of Farmer’s colleagues in Cange was hijacked at gunpoint by uniformed men, apparently former members of the Duvalier dictatorship’s dismantled army. The men, it later became clear, had killed two security guards at a major power plant...