Word: duvalierization
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The U.S. had done everything short of force to show its displeasure with the way Dictator Francois Duvalier runs Haiti - cut off aid, evacuated U.S. citizens, stationed an amphibious assault force off the coast, brought home its ambassador and urged other hemisphere nations to do likewise. But "Papa Doc" Duvalier...
The degree of the United States' commitment, coupled with the strength of anti-Duvalier feeling throughout South America, assure a more truculent opposition in the future. If no more than a boycott of Haitian goods were initiated, the Duvalier government would probably fall, for Haiti's declining economy depends on...
But to equate the end of the Duvalier regime with the solution of Haiti's problems would be short-sighted. If what Adolf Berle has said is true, loss of Duvalier might only leave Haiti to the Communists. Even without the Communists, there would be other serious complications.
In spite of all his barbarities, Duvalier has achieved considerable popularity among the peasantry and the lower classes of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, because of his ardent Negro nationalism. He has called for the elimination of Haiti's economic and cultural dependence on the United States and for...
Duvalier's popularity constitutes a serious obstacle to American and OAS attempts to remove him from office. His overthrow would make him appear as a martyr in the fight against white imperialism, and his popularity among the 90 per cent Negro population would increase. Martyring Duvalier would at once heighten...