Hmmmm ...
Posted on 10/04/2014 10:43:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died Saturday of a heart attack, his attorney said.
Reynold George said the 63-year-old ex-leader died at his home.
Duvalier, looking somewhat frail, made a surprise return to Haiti in 2011, allowing victims of his regime to pursue legal claims against him and prompting some old allies to rally around him. Neither side gained much support, and the once-feared dictator known as "Baby Doc" spent his late years in relative obscurity in the leafy hills above the Haitian capital.
Duvalier was the son of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a medical doctor-turned-dictator who promoted "Noirisme," a movement that sought to highlight Haiti's African roots over its European ones while uniting the black majority against a mulatto elite in a country divided by class and color.
The regimes of both leaders tortured and killed political opponents and relied on a dreaded civilian militia known as the Tonton Macoutes.
In 1971, Francois Duvalier suddenly died of an illness and named his son to succeed him. At 19, Jean-Claude Duvalier became the world's youngest president.
The son was regarded as a lackluster student at a prestigious private Catholic school in the capital but his teachers gave him passing grades anyway to avoid fury from the National Palace, according to "Written in Blood" a history of the country by Robert Debs Heinl and Nancy Gordon Heinl.
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No loss to humanity.
Now chum the waters with him.
Sharks gotta eat too.
I'm wondering how he managed that.
Just damn....
How are people gonna get their Medical Degree?
I would guess that Baby Doc has finally found a place even hotter than Haiti?
Reminds me of Punch and Pinch Sulzberger.
Does his kid have a nickname, too?
Baby Dachshun(d).
“...against a mulatto elite in a country divided by class and color.”
Sounds like the America we’ve become in 6 short years!
@#$%^&*!
Obama is in mourning.
Obama will be mourning today...
Wannabe dictators LOVE the real thing!
I’ll be damn....what will Sammy Morra do now
Bet Michelle Bennet still looks good
My time in Haiti forever imprinted
Interesting. American has a mulatto elite too!
Way way overdue
In Haiti, Mulattos pretty much were the “Whites.”
Most of the “Black” leaders in America are actually mulatto.
The original Spanish/Portuguese word is derived from the word for "mule" because the mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey. So the term could be considered disrespectful, but I don't know if anyone is offended by it. Although in America, it is a safe bet that every possible word is going to offend some group or another.
Baby Doc lost lost his kingdom over lust for the mulatto
The Bennett sisters were smoking hot....very high strung
I knew Chantal well.....
Lost the love of the peasants
True
Plus he lacked the will daddy had
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