Word: duvalierization
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Although the prospect of disaster has been apparent to food experts since last winter, Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, 23, formally declared a food emergency only six weeks ago. Belatedly the government has provided a few thousand dollars to charter trucks carrying food over washboard-rough...
The emergency program is hardly a solution to Haiti's underlying problems. Basically, the once abundant island is an ecological disaster area. The relatively few acres of good bottom land are owned by American sugar growers or by the Duvalier family and their friends. The rest of the island...
Elusive Reality. There has been much talk in Port-au-Prince about the need for agricultural development, especially in reforestation and irrigation. Unfortunately, development plans usually get bogged down in the dusty corridors of one of the world's most uncaring and corrupt bureaucracies. The Duvalier family alone skims...
The CIA has also been accused of being involved in plots to kill South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that same year, Congo Nationalist Patrice Lumumba in 1961 and Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961. Last...
All that may sound icky and derivative. But ten or 20 pages along, the author seizes the reader with a Southern gift for storytelling and never lets go. Fields relates how Jayell Crooms marries the snotty "brass cracker" Gwen from Atlanta, how the sinister Doc Bobo, Georgia's answer...