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Cese el terror duvalierista/Stop Duvalier’s Terrorism
Also known as “Baby Doc,” Jean-Claude Duvalier terrorized Haiti from 1971 to 1986, picking up where his father François “Papa Doc” Duvalier had left off. Duvalier’s army and the dreaded Tonton Macoutes death squad systematically beat, imprisoned, tortured, and killed the regime’s political opponents. Nearly 50,000 Haitians were killed under the [...]
Punta de Maisí, Guantánamo, Cuba, 25 December 2011
“Cuban military searches for survivors after 38 Haitian migrants die on boat,” The Telegraph (25 December 2011)
Image: Cory MacDonald, Haitian Refugee Boat on the Beach at the Naval Station Key West (1970s). World Digital Library.
José Antonio Aponte, Cuba and Haiti
In 1812 occurred the Aponte rebellion, which began in Havana. Aponte was a free Negro whose motives were not apparent, though race hatred seems to have been the prime cause of the outbreak. He terrorized Havana for a time but was slain with many others.
E.P. Herrick, “Uprisings of Cuban Negroes,” The Southern [...]
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Un soldado argentino en Haití es un marine en Iraq
“Un soldado argentino en Haití es un marine en Iraq,” [Argentina]: [s.n.], [n.d.]. Princeton University Library. Latin American Ephemera Collections.
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How the Haitian people feel about former United States President Woodrow Wilson
To-day in the history of Haiti the 4th of March is the beginning of a new era. Mr. Harding, the defender of our cause and advocate of our rights, had entered the White House as President of the United States in place of Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the man of baneful prejudices, who [...]
Posted in Haiti Also tagged 1915, 1919, 1921, archives, Cap Haitien, democracy, freedom, Haiti, history, independence, intervention 4 Comments
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean‑Claude Duvalier was Haiti’s “president for life” from 1971 to 1986, succeeding his father François “Papa Doc” Duvalier. The Duvaliers are estimated to have ordered the deaths of between twenty and thirty thousand Haitian civilians. The brutality of their government created the modern Haitian diaspora, driving hundreds of thousands of Haitians [...]
Posted in Haiti Also tagged 1957, 1971, 1986, 2011, archives, democracy, dictatorship, Duvalier, Haiti, history, United States 3 Comments
U.S.A. Dishonor and Disrespect (Haitian Interdiction 1981 to 1994)
dem na Cuban so dem noh count
Kamau Brathwaite,“Dream Haiti,” (1995)
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez visits Haiti, December 3, 2007