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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... peasants and slum - dwellers who caught hold of my pad or my tape recorder and told me their tales of penury and injustice , and who fortified me -and themselves , their children and their country - with their open and revivifying ...
... peasants and slum - dwellers who caught hold of my pad or my tape recorder and told me their tales of penury and injustice , and who fortified me -and themselves , their children and their country - with their open and revivifying ...
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... The drug runners in the slums are poor , from among the poorest class in Haiti , the urban poor , often even worse off than their village counterparts , peasants like the ones who found the packages wrapped in brown paper . One runner I ...
... The drug runners in the slums are poor , from among the poorest class in Haiti , the urban poor , often even worse off than their village counterparts , peasants like the ones who found the packages wrapped in brown paper . One runner I ...
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... peasants played the drums and Baron Samedi possessed his worshipers , his serviteurs . In shanties deep inside the slums , I would talk with Catholic priests pursued by the Macoutes ; hunted and fearful , they would still refuse to ...
... peasants played the drums and Baron Samedi possessed his worshipers , his serviteurs . In shanties deep inside the slums , I would talk with Catholic priests pursued by the Macoutes ; hunted and fearful , they would still refuse to ...
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... peasantry . Voodoo's hold on the elite ? ( " Maybe . How do we illustrate it , though ? That's my problem . You see ? " ) Voodoo and the Catholic Church . Just plain voodoo . ( " Yeah , uhhuh . Good idea . Great pictures ...
... peasantry . Voodoo's hold on the elite ? ( " Maybe . How do we illustrate it , though ? That's my problem . You see ? " ) Voodoo and the Catholic Church . Just plain voodoo . ( " Yeah , uhhuh . Good idea . Great pictures ...
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... peasant hats . At voodoo pilgrimages in the countryside it was hard to tell the difference between the voodoo priests , who wore the blue denims , red scarves and broad peasant hat that represent the voodoo agricultural god Cousin Zaka ...
... peasant hats . At voodoo pilgrimages in the countryside it was hard to tell the difference between the voodoo priests , who wore the blue denims , red scarves and broad peasant hat that represent the voodoo agricultural god Cousin Zaka ...
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