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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... 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 his eyes and shaking his ...
... 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 his eyes and shaking his ...
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... knew about Haiti after I first arrived or at any rate , he made me understand what I was seeing . Tou sa ou we , se pa sa . Now his view is very dark , and not just the earthquake has turned it that way , but also Haiti itself , the ...
... knew about Haiti after I first arrived or at any rate , he made me understand what I was seeing . Tou sa ou we , se pa sa . Now his view is very dark , and not just the earthquake has turned it that way , but also Haiti itself , the ...
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... knew of went to New York or came back from there . When they went to market south down the main road , toward the capital , village women would talk about the powder and how everyone was afraid to smoke it or taste it . They knew enough ...
... knew of went to New York or came back from there . When they went to market south down the main road , toward the capital , village women would talk about the powder and how everyone was afraid to smoke it or taste it . They knew enough ...
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... knew what the place would be like : I would fly down and the Tontons Macoute , Duvalier's personal army of pampered thugs , would search my bags , confiscate my notebooks and my copy of The Comedians , Graham Greene's banned novel about ...
... knew what the place would be like : I would fly down and the Tontons Macoute , Duvalier's personal army of pampered thugs , would search my bags , confiscate my notebooks and my copy of The Comedians , Graham Greene's banned novel about ...
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... knew that the United States was in on the deal . And some of them even remembered stories from the end of 1985 , especially the incident in November in Gonaïves , in which three schoolboys protesting the Duvalier regime had been killed ...
... knew that the United States was in on the deal . And some of them even remembered stories from the end of 1985 , especially the incident in November in Gonaïves , in which three schoolboys protesting the Duvalier regime had been killed ...
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