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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... Jean - Claude Duvalier , the young President- for - Life , and his beautiful wife , Michèle . A handsome voodoo priest would guide me to a temple in the hills , and I would watch as the peasants played the drums and Baron Samedi ...
... Jean - Claude Duvalier , the young President- for - Life , and his beautiful wife , Michèle . A handsome voodoo priest would guide me to a temple in the hills , and I would watch as the peasants played the drums and Baron Samedi ...
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... Jean - Claude Duvalier was already on his way out of Haiti . The State Department had the story wrong , nothing new ... Jean - Claude had fled , he telephoned Washington to let them know the news . In the end , it turned out that Jean ...
... Jean - Claude Duvalier was already on his way out of Haiti . The State Department had the story wrong , nothing new ... Jean - Claude had fled , he telephoned Washington to let them know the news . In the end , it turned out that Jean ...
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... Jean - Claude was not of the highest - caliber intelligence— was within the bounds of the acceptable . While denigrating Jean- Claude's intellectual abilities , for example , he would praise the First Lady for her good qualities ...
... Jean - Claude was not of the highest - caliber intelligence— was within the bounds of the acceptable . While denigrating Jean- Claude's intellectual abilities , for example , he would praise the First Lady for her good qualities ...
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... Jean - Claude's father François became President in 1957 , the Tontons Macoute began to make their appearance in Port - au- Prince . Back in those days , they were known as the Cagoulards , for the black , executioner - style hoods they ...
... Jean - Claude's father François became President in 1957 , the Tontons Macoute began to make their appearance in Port - au- Prince . Back in those days , they were known as the Cagoulards , for the black , executioner - style hoods they ...
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... Jean - Claude was at least partially in charge . My had burned had gotten under the fenders and into the. ly poor little Pony . It was a serviceable car , a Hyundai . It was white , and cheap to rent . But now the muck from the market ...
... Jean - Claude was at least partially in charge . My had burned had gotten under the fenders and into the. ly poor little Pony . It was a serviceable car , a Hyundai . It was white , and cheap to rent . But now the muck from the market ...
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