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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... coups and unrest in Haiti since then and even before , the long fiddling and fixing fingers of the U.S. have been detectable . The embassy is one of Port - au - Prince's biggest employers , biggest office buildings , longest - lasting ...
... coups and unrest in Haiti since then and even before , the long fiddling and fixing fingers of the U.S. have been detectable . The embassy is one of Port - au - Prince's biggest employers , biggest office buildings , longest - lasting ...
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... coup . " What you do ? " said one guide the next day , reeling back from the car . " You visit La Saline yesterday ? You be careful where you drive after the rain . Better change that car . Today is better . " The machine - gun fire the ...
... coup . " What you do ? " said one guide the next day , reeling back from the car . " You visit La Saline yesterday ? You be careful where you drive after the rain . Better change that car . Today is better . " The machine - gun fire the ...
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... coup d'état or Duvalier's departure , but instead we got nothing , a blank screen that we watched all night . " I tried to get a session with Michèle , " the dark - haired photographer told me , while the international press corps ...
... coup d'état or Duvalier's departure , but instead we got nothing , a blank screen that we watched all night . " I tried to get a session with Michèle , " the dark - haired photographer told me , while the international press corps ...
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