The Rainy Season: Haiti—Then and NowConsidered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti’s President-for-Life, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it’s over—Wilentz’s Haiti haunts the imagination. |
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... Finally though , the officer - rolling his eyes and shaking his head slightly , and looking up to the heavens in a combined gesture of impatience and resignation not uncommon among people new to Haiti - let the old man leave with his ...
... Finally though , the officer - rolling his eyes and shaking his head slightly , and looking up to the heavens in a combined gesture of impatience and resignation not uncommon among people new to Haiti - let the old man leave with his ...
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... finally , special thanks to Nick Goldberg for his unflagging support and tolerance throughout , as well as for his sympathetic yet critical readings of this manuscript in its many stages . New York March 1989 AMY WILENTZ Contents ...
... finally , special thanks to Nick Goldberg for his unflagging support and tolerance throughout , as well as for his sympathetic yet critical readings of this manuscript in its many stages . New York March 1989 AMY WILENTZ Contents ...
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... Finally I arrived , exhausted by the shock of the heat , so many people , the dust , the dogs run down in the street , the children with kites on the roofs , and the screaming traffic , at the Grand Hotel Oloffson , the hotel Graham ...
... Finally I arrived , exhausted by the shock of the heat , so many people , the dust , the dogs run down in the street , the children with kites on the roofs , and the screaming traffic , at the Grand Hotel Oloffson , the hotel Graham ...
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... Finally he stopped beating her , and held her there , crouched in front of him , his stick resting on her back . He cast a mean glance over at the crowd , let go of her , and kicked her away . He turned and looked up at the musicians ...
... Finally he stopped beating her , and held her there , crouched in front of him , his stick resting on her back . He cast a mean glance over at the crowd , let go of her , and kicked her away . He turned and looked up at the musicians ...
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... finally shutting the Military Academy , where the elite of the Army were trained . He wanted no elite . From then on , Duvalier alone was to be the elite - or , as he put it in 1964 , " I shall be lord and master " —and the VSN were his ...
... finally shutting the Military Academy , where the elite of the Army were trained . He wanted no elite . From then on , Duvalier alone was to be the elite - or , as he put it in 1964 , " I shall be lord and master " —and the VSN were his ...
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