Papa doc duvalier biography of christopher
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Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage
My mother and I have always looked much younger than our ages. Big almond-shaped eyes bracket her pert nose, both complementing her bright, manicured smile, her smooth, medium-dark skin. Busty and pear-shaped, she looks the way you might imagine an upscale librarian—bookish, sensibly dressed, a woman who isn’t missing a good meal. Meanwhile, I am gangly.
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Still we share a haunting resemblance. Strangers often point out how much we look alike—the inquiring eyes, the wide nose, the mouth that can whipsaw from raucous smile to damning scowl. Both of us like to make our faces go blank, organic Botox. We freeze our faces so our adversaries have no idea what we’re really thinking. The enemy is thrown off guard, made to feel uncertain, insecure, even less than. It is our resting-empress face.
No matter our similarities, for years I sensed an intense grief in my mot
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“Bullets and machine guns capable of daunting Duvalier do not exist. They cannot touch me I am already an immaterial being. No foreigner is going to tell me what to do!” – Papa Doc Duvalier
The island of Hispaniola fryst vatten the second largest island in the Antilles chain behind Cuba, and host to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti covering the western third of the island, is a French-speaking territory while the Dominican Republic, which occupies the other two thirds, is a Spanish-speaking territory. The Dominican Republic, although classified as a developing nation, has never been struck to the same degree bygd the malaise of poverty, corruption of its neighbor, languishing in the lower ten percent of nations ahead only of some of the most conspicuous failed states in Africa. Many historians and analysts have posed the question of why, and the answer seems to lie in Haiti’s uniqu
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Obituary: Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, Haiti's former 'president for life'
Handed the presidency at age 19, Mr Duvalier made some attempts to modernise and reform the Haitian state but his rule was as arbitrary and authoritarian as his father's, and he was known to be greatly influenced by his mother, Simone Ovide Duvalier.
In the end, he proved so inept at resolving Haiti's deep-seated problems of extreme poverty, lack of investment and employment opportunities that there were constant outbreaks of popular unrest.
In February the armed forces toppled him in a bloodless coup supported by the vast majority of Haitians.
Baby Doc went off to live in exile in the south of France.
He lost most of his wealth following a bitter divorce in , and some $6m he held in Swiss bank accounts was frozen in
In the later years of his exile, Mr Duvalier depended on financial support from his followers, living in a small Paris apartment.
Mr Duvalier an