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Word: progreso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given friendly refuge to Duvalier's archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile, and Dr. Clement Jumelle, who is hiding out in Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: In the Middle | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Position. The incitement hit home. For a Fignole broadcast over Radio Progreso last week, so many of his poor black followers crowded around the available radios in Port-au-Prince that walls collapsed in two slum homes. Under pressure, Duvalier played tough. In recent weeks at least four oppositionists have been killed by police or the tontons macoute (bogeymen), Duvalier's band of civilian thugs. Latest victim: a Dejoie supporter named Claude Mirambeau, found with five pistol slugs in his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: In the Middle | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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