Word: duvalierization
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It was the opening rally in a "Month of National Gratefulness to Duvalier," and the speaker was a henchman of Haiti's Dictator. Françpois Duvalier himself was on hand, surrounded by helmeted palace guards and blue-denimed militiamen. He had given orders for his men to explain...
TIME has been publishing a Latin -American edition in English since 1947, in which, besides all the news' published in the U.S. edition, extra Latin American coverage was added. Lately we have decided that so widespread is the interest, and so important is the need to know, that we...
In the past five years, the U.S. has pumped some $43.5 million into Haiti, the small Negro Caribbean country misruled by Strongman François Duvalier. A respected back-country doctor before he went into politics, "Papa Doc,'' as he calls himself, has become a ham-fisted tyrant...
Now. at long last, U.S. patience has ended. Ambassador Ray Thurston is in Washington for consultation, expects to return to Haiti this week bearing an unpleasant message. The U.S. is cutting Duvalier off the dole, has reduced new aid this year to $2,400,000 (compared with $7,000,000...
Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled...