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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... Port - au - Prince , and streets also often have both formal names and nicknames ) . Frantz is looking down at me with his head cocked to the side . He finds me peculiar but amusing , a foreigner walking around in the detritus in what ...
... Port - au - Prince , and streets also often have both formal names and nicknames ) . Frantz is looking down at me with his head cocked to the side . He finds me peculiar but amusing , a foreigner walking around in the detritus in what ...
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... Port - au - Prince's biggest employers , biggest office buildings , longest - lasting institutions . ( Whenever I think of Haiti I think of the famous joke : Why are there no coups in the U.S. ? Simple : No U.S. Embassy . ) Haiti's ...
... Port - au - Prince's biggest employers , biggest office buildings , longest - lasting institutions . ( Whenever I think of Haiti I think of the famous joke : Why are there no coups in the U.S. ? Simple : No U.S. Embassy . ) Haiti's ...
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... Port - au - Prince , I stopped again at the clinic . There he was , still sitting on his mother's lap — it was 3 p.m. now . She'd moved to the other side of the driveway to get out of the sun . No doctor had seen him . McKenley had run ...
... Port - au - Prince , I stopped again at the clinic . There he was , still sitting on his mother's lap — it was 3 p.m. now . She'd moved to the other side of the driveway to get out of the sun . No doctor had seen him . McKenley had run ...
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... Port - au - Prince ; friends at the Centre Karl Lévêque in Port - au - Prince ; Alix , Milford and Wilson , three of my guides , as well as Ducé , Destouches , Hérold , Charlot and Martial at the Oloffson ; Lucy and Abner in Duverger ...
... Port - au - Prince ; friends at the Centre Karl Lévêque in Port - au - Prince ; Alix , Milford and Wilson , three of my guides , as well as Ducé , Destouches , Hérold , Charlot and Martial at the Oloffson ; Lucy and Abner in Duverger ...
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... Port - au - Prince Logant • Primes Frites Povil TANG Mariani Carreleur Bomillers Kinscoff SALMATRE MORNE LA SELLE Belle - Anst Port - Salut CUBA BAHAMAS WINDWARD PASSAGE NORD QUEST REPUBLIC DOMINICAN HAITI AND NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES 0 ...
... Port - au - Prince Logant • Primes Frites Povil TANG Mariani Carreleur Bomillers Kinscoff SALMATRE MORNE LA SELLE Belle - Anst Port - Salut CUBA BAHAMAS WINDWARD PASSAGE NORD QUEST REPUBLIC DOMINICAN HAITI AND NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES 0 ...
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American Aristide Aristide's armed Army asked attack Avril Ayiti barricade began Benito bidonville bishops Boutilliers boys called Cap-Haïtien Carrefour Casernes charcoal Chavannes church Cité Soleil clairin Colonel countryside coup coup d'état courtyard Creole crowd dancing Dechoukaj Dessalines dollars drums Duvalier Duvalier's Duvalierists elections foreign François François Duvalier French friends front girls Gonaïves gunfire guns Haiti Haitian hand head houngan Jean-Claude Jean-Claude Duvalier Jean-Rabel jeep Jolicoeur journalists junta killed knew laughed Legliz live looked machetes Manigat Marc Bazin massacre Mimette mulatto Namphy Namphy's night Ogoun Oloffson palace Paul peasants peristyle Pétionville photographer pigs political Port-au-Prince priest Prosper Avril Radio Soleil rain road Salesian Saline says Senatorial Candidate slaves slums smiled soldiers St.-Jean-Bosco stopped street talk tap-tap tell Titid told Tontons Macoute town trees truck turned voodoo Waldeck watched women young zombi