Jean-Claude `Baby Doc’ Duvalier’s return to Haiti stirs up troubled memories as advocacy groups call for his prosecution. Jailed under the Duvalier regime for more than four months, Miami playwright Jan Mapou first felt shock at the news that deposed dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier had returned to Haiti. Then, resignation. Now, disgust. Locked up […]
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1. Jobs are everything. All humans need money — they need it to buy food and water every day. And no matter how hard the government or the aid industry tries, people will want for all three things until they are employed. The world pledged some $10.2 billion in recovery aid to Haiti after Jan.
‘Baby Doc’ went from riches to rags after fleeing the Caribbean for France in 1986. Now back in Haiti, he faces an uncertain fate Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, the former Haitian leader, waves to supporters in Port-au-Prince. Photograph: Allison Shelley/Getty ImagesWhen the Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier arrived in France in 1986 with millions
The motives of the notorious playboy and dictator, who was exiled in 1986, remain unclear Earthquake, hurricanes, cholera, political crisis: it seemed Haiti’s woes could not get worse. Then an Air France flight landed in Port-au-Prince and out stepped Baby Doc. Wearing a blue suit and tie, he was older, frailer, but still recognisable all
