Word: duvalierization
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One need not ponder the imponderables to discover what lies behind Haiti's stunning poverty, its stagnation, and the withdrawal of American money. The answer is easy: Dr. Francois Duvalier, self-declared president of Haiti for life, the notorious "Papa Doc."
Greene's fictional Haiti, which seems not very far removed from the real one, is a Black Power station brutally run by "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his swaggering Gestapo, the Tontonx Maconte. Eventually, Ford realizes that in order to survive in Haiti he would have to become a vegetable...
The Haitian government would not allow the moviemakers in. When he learned the locale was to be Dahomey, Africa, the Duvalier representative protested formally. Yet French Photographer Henri Decae's location shots offer a remarkable re-creation of a land where images of voodoo gods and the Virgin Mary...
A Family Affair. Duvalier has even clamped down on his own family. Army Colonel Max Dominique, military commander of Port-au-Prince and the hus band of Duvalier's 26-year-old daughter, was sent packing off to Madrid as Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. As Dominique'...
Haiti's troubles can only get worse. Graft and corruption have sucked the economy dry, the government is two years behind in some of its bills, and there are strong fears in Port-au-Prince that the International Monetary Fund, which has been loaning Duvalier as much as $4...