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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... talk to in the Catholic Church was , I confess , limited . But my trusty friend and fixer at the time , Milford Bruno , looked at me hard one day when I was complaining about this problem , and told me he could get me someone . He drove ...
... talk to in the Catholic Church was , I confess , limited . But my trusty friend and fixer at the time , Milford Bruno , looked at me hard one day when I was complaining about this problem , and told me he could get me someone . He drove ...
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... talk about the powder and how everyone was afraid to smoke it or taste it . They knew enough of their own powders - mixed by the priest to cure maladies or to inspire them to fear that it was poison . In the market , the women told ...
... talk about the powder and how everyone was afraid to smoke it or taste it . They knew enough of their own powders - mixed by the priest to cure maladies or to inspire them to fear that it was poison . In the market , the women told ...
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... talking to the man sitting in front . That man turns and talks to a runner waiting in the road , and the runner talks to another runner , and in about fifteen or twenty minutes , after a few cups of very strong , very sweet coffee , the ...
... talking to the man sitting in front . That man turns and talks to a runner waiting in the road , and the runner talks to another runner , and in about fifteen or twenty minutes , after a few cups of very strong , very sweet coffee , the ...
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... talk with Catholic priests pursued by the Macoutes ; hunted and fearful , they would still refuse to accept exile , and would be hiding in a different hovel every night . Uzi - waving Macoutes would storm into my hotel and arrest the ...
... talk with Catholic priests pursued by the Macoutes ; hunted and fearful , they would still refuse to accept exile , and would be hiding in a different hovel every night . Uzi - waving Macoutes would storm into my hotel and arrest the ...
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... blond photographer in a black dress . She was wandering around the big bar room and swiveling to see who was there and whom to talk to . The man she had come down with , another photographer , followed pathetically in her wake , as.
... blond photographer in a black dress . She was wandering around the big bar room and swiveling to see who was there and whom to talk to . The man she had come down with , another photographer , followed pathetically in her wake , as.
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