Baby Doc Charged, But Duvalierism Remains Alive in Haiti
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier probably had every reason to believe that Haiti wouldn’t book him when he made his stunning return to the country on Sunday. Although the exiled former dictator is accused of an orgy of brutality and embezzlement while ruling Haiti from 1971 to 1986, he may well have assumed the government at the moment had enough on its broken plate – earthquake recovery, a cholera epidemic, a presidential election crisis – that it couldn’t afford the political turbulence of arresting, charging and prosecuting him as well. If so, it seems Baby Doc miscalculated. Tuesday morning, a Haitian judge and prosecutor, backed by police and a government helicopter buzzing overhead,…
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Baby Doc Charged, But Duvalierism Remains Alive in Haiti
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