The Rainy Season: Haiti Since DuvalierThis welcome interpretation of Haiti provides many insights into a country that few North Americans understand. Wilentz, a journalist, captures the complex cultural ambience and mystery of domestic politics with a penetrating eye and powerful description. Covering the years 1986-89, Wilentz analyzes political developments, centering her interpretations on the activities of a radical priest, interspersed with individual Haitian portraits and personal incidents. The flavor of Haiti is superbly conveyed, as are some unsavory aspects of the role of the press, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. embassy, but Wilentz's narrative is often unclear and her objectivity flawed. For academic and large public libraries.-- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia . -Library Journal. |
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Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. That was the Dechoukaj . " Dechoukaj , " like many other Haitian political slogans , is a word that comes straight out of Haiti's farm culture . It means to uproot a tree , to pull it out of the ground ...
Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. That was the Dechoukaj . " Dechoukaj , " like many other Haitian political slogans , is a word that comes straight out of Haiti's farm culture . It means to uproot a tree , to pull it out of the ground ...
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... Dechoukaj , but the Church , some of whose clergymen used to carry guns beneath their cassocks under François Duvalier and were known as prêtres macoutes , decided soon after the Dechoukaj had begun that the people's movement against Du ...
... Dechoukaj , but the Church , some of whose clergymen used to carry guns beneath their cassocks under François Duvalier and were known as prêtres macoutes , decided soon after the Dechoukaj had begun that the people's movement against Du ...
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Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. ical dechoukaj was finished , a different and more dangerous dechou- kaj might begin , a political dechoukaj . In their sermons and state- ments , the bishops asked point - blank for an end to the ...
Haiti Since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. ical dechoukaj was finished , a different and more dangerous dechou- kaj might begin , a political dechoukaj . In their sermons and state- ments , the bishops asked point - blank for an end to the ...
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