Word: duvalierization
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Familiar Scenery. Greene's characters follow predestined paths to nowhere, past all the familiar Greeneland scenes: pursuit, betrayal, suicide, failure, adulterous love. Brown is returning to the hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the...
To Bishop, Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier was "honest" and "intelligent." Commenting on last year's carefully supervised election, in which Papa Doc stood alone on the ballot, Bishop wrote: "The Haitians liked him so well that they elected him President for life. This was not a...
Some weeks ago, according to a story going the rounds in Haiti, Dictator François Duvalier sent a secret emissary to John Kennedy's grave in Arlington Cemetery. There the emissary collected a pinch of earth, a withered flower, and in a small bottle took a sample of...
The tale may or may not be true. But most Haitians believe it. They believe almost anything about Duvalier. In his eight years of power, the onetime country-doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor. The U.S. has all but suspended dollar aid, maintains only the most...
Bogeywomen. All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly after coming to power, he "organized his tonton macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants, tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the tonton in their grisly...