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 322
... journalists who were hanging out in front would run inside . In the press office that the CEP had set up with U.S. funding to facilitate the reporting of election returns , journalists were lining up to call their mothers on the AT & T ...
... journalists who were hanging out in front would run inside . In the press office that the CEP had set up with U.S. funding to facilitate the reporting of election returns , journalists were lining up to call their mothers on the AT & T ...
Page 323
... journalists ' panic , as the Haitians began laughingly to call the Holiday Inn stampede . The voters at Ruelle Vaillant had done their civic duty : they had lined up at the Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde , off Avenue John Brown ...
... journalists ' panic , as the Haitians began laughingly to call the Holiday Inn stampede . The voters at Ruelle Vaillant had done their civic duty : they had lined up at the Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde , off Avenue John Brown ...
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... journalists descended once again . Like the Haitian peo- ple , they could not figure out what was going on . They were expect- ing a countercoup ; the U.S. State Department , publicly quite cautious on the subject of Avril and the ti ...
... journalists descended once again . Like the Haitian peo- ple , they could not figure out what was going on . They were expect- ing a countercoup ; the U.S. State Department , publicly quite cautious on the subject of Avril and the ti ...
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