Word: duvalierization
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On the other side, Cedras' supporters are afraid that Aristide's partisans will seek blood revenge on the soldiers and attaches -- successors of the infamous Tontons Macoutes of the Duvalier years -- who have terrorized and tortured them for the past three years. The soldiers' fear is so great that Cedras...
The junta's friends pose a graver problem. They fear that Aristide's supporters, if not Aristide himself, will seek revenge for abuses and killings committed during the three years since the coup. There is a long tradition of vengeance when power shifts. When Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fell...
Toto Constant emerges from his two-story white villa in Port-au-Prince, looking for all the world like a Sunday driver out for a spin in his Nissan rental. But the illusion is soon broken by the arsenal in his car: an M-1 carbine, an Uzi submachine gun...
Aristide won the 1990 election with 67 percent of the vote. Before he was even sworn in, the former head of the Duvalier regime's feared Tontons Macoute attempted to seize power in a coup that was suppressed by the army.
Amid their grueling daily rounds, in which comforts are few and harassment of foreign journalists is growing -- friskings are common, and Barnes has twice been detained by police -- the reporters feel a dispiriting sense of deja vu. "For older Haitians," says Diederich, who once ran the newspaper Haiti Sun, "the...