Word: duvalierization
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Sir: Before you begin a "canonization" ritual of "Savior" Allende, please bear in mind that Mussolini, Hitler, Jimenez, Castro and Papa Duvalier all began in the same phony manner. First, treat your subjects with plenty of tender loving care, win their gullible confidence, then slowly but surely apply the inevitable...
Citizen Doctor François Duvalier . . . has chosen Citizen Jean-Claude Duvalier to succeed him to the Presidency for Life of the Republic. Does this choice answer your aspirations and your desires? Do you ratify it?
Last week 2,391,916 residents of Haiti voted out to "Papa Doc" Duvalier's proposal that he be succeeded by his hulking son, Jean-Claude, 19. If anybody voted non, the Port-au-Prince papers did not mention it.
Most educated Haitians who are acquainted with the 200-lb. "Baskethead," as Jean-Claude is known, are said to be less hostile to the idea of his succession than skeptical. If any of Duvalier's four children appears to have the sort of killer instinct demanded by the job...
The ambitious Dédé Duvalier Dominique is, in short, the only person any one can remember who has engaged in a battle of wills with Papa Doc and survived. And local bocors (voodoo witch doctors) claim that she, alone among Duvalier's brood, is his "spiritual daughter...