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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Page 61
... guns , two of them at the home of Commander P. Véricain . . . I have given guns to M. Gérard Raymond , sergeant on the Fourth Watch : six guns in the guardroom , one at the stairway , and one for the sentry box , none of which have been ...
... guns , two of them at the home of Commander P. Véricain . . . I have given guns to M. Gérard Raymond , sergeant on the Fourth Watch : six guns in the guardroom , one at the stairway , and one for the sentry box , none of which have been ...
Page 304
... guns , and the noise stopped only with the dawn . A warning from machetes to machine guns is a curious exercise , and one that in the long run rarely impresses the men with the machine guns . What the photographers should have waited to ...
... guns , and the noise stopped only with the dawn . A warning from machetes to machine guns is a curious exercise , and one that in the long run rarely impresses the men with the machine guns . What the photographers should have waited to ...
Page 369
... guns ; in defeat , as now , they used their guns . On the other hand , the shortcut was fast and I was eager to see my friend . She'd spent the whole day on another long march , walking from St. - Jean - Bosco up to the Papal Nuncio's ...
... guns ; in defeat , as now , they used their guns . On the other hand , the shortcut was fast and I was eager to see my friend . She'd spent the whole day on another long march , walking from St. - Jean - Bosco up to the Papal Nuncio's ...
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