Word: duvalierization
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Haiti has not been treated kindly by its black voodoo gods - or by its dicta tor, Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier.
He imported a score of beauty queens from Miami and the Dominican Republic and arranged a féte culturelle of poetry readings highlighted by the works of Francois Duvalier. Sample: "The black of my ebony skin merges with the shadows of the night." He prompted a two-hour recital...
He could not, of course, arrange everything. As the carnival parade snaked by the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, a bomb inside an icecream cart exploded in the middle of the crowd. Another bomb went off a few hours later, while the Haitian capital was blacked out by one...
The Savior. The wonder is that there is anyone left in Haiti to set off bombs. In his years as President, Duvalier has stamped out virtually all opposition, executing 2,000 political enemies and driving the rest into exile or terrified silence. The Tonton Macoute is so ubiquitous that Haitians...
Though the U.S. has cut off direct aid to Duvalier's corrupt regime, he also has little to fear from the outside. In the past year he has repaired his relations with the once hostile Dominican Republic, thanks largely to the fact that he once granted asylum to President...