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Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo could kick up his boots like a pro. During a 1951 peace meeting on the Haitian border, El Jefe grabbed the daughter of one of his officers and, as a ceremonial band bore down on a merengue beat, danced away the next hour. His countrymen could also call the tune to advantage, however. After Trujillo's 1961 assassination, Dominicans danced for months to The Death of the Goat, an irreverent merengue written to celebrate the general's violent removal...
Merengue madness is not shared throughout the Caribbean. Just as there are shadings in style -- Haitian merengue, for example, has a heavier African inflection -- there are differences among people whose musical tastes can be as vehement as their politics. "The trouble with Dominicans is they don't know how to dance," grumps a Puerto Rican music-business entrepreneur in New York City. But the numbers are against...
...report prepared by Altman included the additional allegation that 12 Haitian cab drivers had been unnecessarily arrested in a humiliating and conspicuous fashion...
...stand trial on those charges last week, but the Estime murder trial was postponed to allow Desyr to appeal his conviction. Two 90-minute tape recordings of the torturing of the Estimes were seized from Desyr's home last February. The tapes, filled with screams, have been broadcast on Haitian radio stations. At one point on the tape, Desyr orders a man torturing one of the cousins to "break his finger...
According to Glamour, Pinede's Haitian immigrant parents influenced her decision to study Afro-American literature. "Unlike me, my parents did not have the freedom to study their own culture in school; the colonists' culture was the only legitimate one. Literature by outsiders of a particular society can show us injustice and prejudice, but it can also offer hope for pluralism and reform. By distilling human suffering and triumph, literature can teach compassion and respect for human potential," Pinede told Glamour...