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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... of romantic ideas in our heads . I remember him asking me , as we watched young men . running through the streets and armed thugs following them , shooting , " Is this your first revolution ? " Yah, it was. His too. But it turned out that.
... of romantic ideas in our heads . I remember him asking me , as we watched young men . running through the streets and armed thugs following them , shooting , " Is this your first revolution ? " Yah, it was. His too. But it turned out that.
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... turned out that it was also his own revolution. Not that he led it, but he certainly co-opted it to achieve his own goals and ambitions. A middling figure on the Haitian national scene when I met him, his reputation continued to grow ...
... turned out that it was also his own revolution. Not that he led it, but he certainly co-opted it to achieve his own goals and ambitions. A middling figure on the Haitian national scene when I met him, his reputation continued to grow ...
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... turned his attention next to another scavenger who had clearly broken his shinbone in the wreckage . The man was wincing and limping but would not accept help and would not agree to be taken anywhere for medical attention . No , no , no ...
... turned his attention next to another scavenger who had clearly broken his shinbone in the wreckage . The man was wincing and limping but would not accept help and would not agree to be taken anywhere for medical attention . No , no , no ...
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... turned it that way , but also Haiti itself , the upturns always followed in swift succession by the downturns . A friend of his was killed a few years ago — that was hard - shot in his own driveway . But then , friends of mine were ...
... turned it that way , but also Haiti itself , the upturns always followed in swift succession by the downturns . A friend of his was killed a few years ago — that was hard - shot in his own driveway . But then , friends of mine were ...
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... turned to the priest and told him that he had here a product they needed very much in Port - au- Prince , and that they would be willing to pay him thirteen dollars for each package . That was a lot of money for something that had cost ...
... turned to the priest and told him that he had here a product they needed very much in Port - au- Prince , and that they would be willing to pay him thirteen dollars for each package . That was a lot of money for something that had cost ...
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