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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after coming to power, he organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants [and] tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the Tonton in their grisly business, there is now even a ladies' auxiliary?the Fillette Lalo, a group of pistol-packing molls who are just as predatory as their male counterparts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

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