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In Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, Duvalier's palace guards burst into the Dominican embassy in search of 22 anti-government Haitians, including several army officers, who had sought asylum there. They ransacked two floors without finding the men (who were hiding in the embassy residence...
Blood at the Border. Negro Haiti and the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic are the worst of neighbors even in the best of times. In the early 1800s, the sport of Haitian rulers was slaughtering Dominicans; in the 1930s, Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo methodically killed some 15,000 Haitian squatters on...
At the talk, the OAS in Washington hurriedly flew a five-nation investigating team to the island. But in their one brief meeting with Haiti's dictator, Duvalier insisted on jabbering in Creole; the OAS team scarcely understood his words. Only under pressure did he agree to remove his...
Over the Horizon. Through it all, the U.S., which has long since cut off all aid to Haiti to show its displeasure, sought to maintain a hands-off attitude and refused even to participate in the OAS fact-finding mission. But the U.S. finds it harder and harder to ignore...
To an obedient crowd of 10,000, mostly ragged peasants trucked into the capital to hear the man who calls himself "Papa Doc," Duvalier declared: "I am the personification of the Haitian nation. I will keep power. God is the only one who can take it from me."