Word: duvalierization
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For its size, the island of Hispaniola-where Christopher Columbus landed in 1492-can match its violent past and present with just about any place, including Cuba, the island next door. One end of the island of Hispaniola just got rid of the bloody 31-year dictatorship of the Trujillos...
Militia & Army. Duvalier has reason to worry. Haiti's per capita income is about $70 a year, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; unemployment averages 60%, illiteracy runs 90%, and life expectancy is only 32.6 years. When he campaigned for the presidency in 1957, Duvalier, a onetime backwoods...
Until recently, the only outward manifestations of revolt were a few student marches, and individual acts of defiance. But now Haiti's U.S. -trained 5,000-man army is dissatisfied with Duvalier, and embittered at being upstaged by the ragtag militia. Last month a group of army officers hatched...
Lesson & Warning. Since then Duvalier has cashiered 60 career officers-almost one third of the army's officer corps-broken off a U.S. Marine training program for his army, and prohibited all U.S. flights into Haiti, except those of Pan American.
At week's end, as Duvalier's two children-Jean-Claude, 12, and Simone, 14-were being driven to Methodist Bird College two blocks from the palace, a car pulled alongside and shots rang out. Neither child was hit, but the driver and two bodyguards were killed. Duvalier...