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Haitians, he had been warned, were too poor to be taxed. There had even been mutterings among the coffee-colored aristocracy about an armed rising. But last week, as President Dumarsais Estimé's income-tax law-the first in Haiti's 144-year history-went into effect, Haitians were too absorbed by the things Estimé was doing with his record-breaking $13,000,000 budget to take much notice...
...source of all this energy, jet-black Dumarsais Estimé, 48, was elected two years ago, largely on the strength of his opposition to the dictatorial mulatto President Elie Lescot. The grimly ambitious son of a back-country peasant, Estimé gets up each morning at 4:30, breakfasts on orange juice. Before 5, he tackles the pile of papers on his desk and with 45 minutes out for lunch and slightly more for dinner, works until midnight...
...Port-au-Prince last week, peasants were singing: "Estimé, c'est bon papa; he makes his people step ahead." The pro-government papers printed flowery poems of praise, in which every pronoun referring to Estimé was capitalized. To at least one Haitian, that was carrying things too far. Snorted waggish Senator Alphonse Henríquez: "Another Christophe! Another Toussaint L'Ouverture! Another Jesus Christ! . . . Hell! A motor in a pair...
...order: "Wear shoes when you come to town, put on clean clothes, look tidy and decent. It is a shame to go walking around barefoot in your country's capital." Having just raised the minimum wage in Haiti from 50? to 70? a day, up-&-coming President Dumarsais Estimé was out to improve the appearance and living standards of his mouse-poor people...
...Estimé reasoned that if people had to wear shoes, they would work harder to get the money to buy them; if they worked harder, they would produce more food and make more money. Besides, a well-dressed people would make a better impression on the tourists President Estimé hopes to see flocking to Haiti to share its easygoing life and to visit the brooding ruins of Christophe's vast citadel...