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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... stopped calling. Frantz. Benjamin Raymond didn't have a job before the sekous, but now he has a job. Grace à dieu, he says. Grace à the earthquake, I think. Frantz has a big smile. Well, he should. He's making forty dollars a month, a ...
... stopped calling. Frantz. Benjamin Raymond didn't have a job before the sekous, but now he has a job. Grace à dieu, he says. Grace à the earthquake, I think. Frantz has a big smile. Well, he should. He's making forty dollars a month, a ...
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... stopped him . The man spoke no English , the officer no Creole - but the officer 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 ...
... stopped him . The man spoke no English , the officer no Creole - but the officer 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 ...
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... 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 out of pain medication ...
... 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 out of pain medication ...
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... stopping politely . " Oh , this one's not ' welcome , " I said . " Is that what you mean ? " He smiled . Another round of shots , another round of drinks at the photographers ' table . Then what sounded like machine - gun fire in the ...
... stopping politely . " Oh , this one's not ' welcome , " I said . " Is that what you mean ? " He smiled . Another round of shots , another round of drinks at the photographers ' table . Then what sounded like machine - gun fire in the ...
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... stopped for the rain . " I thought I'd write a story about Haiti , " I said to him . He laughed . " What an odd thing . Me too , " he said . He had been coming to Haiti for seventeen years . " No one here knows anything about the place ...
... stopped for the rain . " I thought I'd write a story about Haiti , " I said to him . He laughed . " What an odd thing . Me too , " he said . He had been coming to Haiti for seventeen years . " No one here knows anything about the place ...
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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