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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... Creole - but the officer knew that all scavenging had to stop now ( as he said repeatedly ) , because the bulldozers were coming in and the Eighty - second did not want to bulldoze any scavengers . Finally though , the officer - rolling ...
... Creole - but the officer knew that all scavenging had to stop now ( as he said repeatedly ) , because the bulldozers were coming in and the Eighty - second did not want to bulldoze any scavengers . Finally though , the officer - rolling ...
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... Creole , and if you saw him you'd think he was a very light - skinned Haitian mulatto . He walks like a Haitian , his attitudes are Haitian . He smokes cigarettes like a Haitian ( or a Frenchman ) . He taught me everything I knew about ...
... Creole , and if you saw him you'd think he was a very light - skinned Haitian mulatto . He walks like a Haitian , his attitudes are Haitian . He smokes cigarettes like a Haitian ( or a Frenchman ) . He taught me everything I knew about ...
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... Creole , how to say " suck - up , ” and “ cheap ” and “ broke , ” among other things . They led me around by the hand through the Port - au - Prince shantytowns , my guides and rescuers through so many of the riots and demonstrations in ...
... Creole , how to say " suck - up , ” and “ cheap ” and “ broke , ” among other things . They led me around by the hand through the Port - au - Prince shantytowns , my guides and rescuers through so many of the riots and demonstrations in ...
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... Creole , the slave language that grew out of a mix of seventeenth- and eighteenth - century French and African tongues : in Creole they call it dòmi kanpe , stand - up sleep . In this position , they dream the dreams that give them the ...
... Creole , the slave language that grew out of a mix of seventeenth- and eighteenth - century French and African tongues : in Creole they call it dòmi kanpe , stand - up sleep . In this position , they dream the dreams that give them the ...
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... Creole , so we just chatted them up —oh , thanks , yes , " Harry said as Frank offered to fill his glass , made a little speech at every barricade about how the foreign press was helping the revolution , publicizing it , and saving ...
... Creole , so we just chatted them up —oh , thanks , yes , " Harry said as Frank offered to fill his glass , made a little speech at every barricade about how the foreign press was helping the revolution , publicizing it , and saving ...
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