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 119
... killed by soldiers in Martissant near the capital - they will withdraw for a while and come up with a new tactic . Again , with the new tactic , they will push it to an extreme in order to test its usefulness . This is normal behavior ...
... killed by soldiers in Martissant near the capital - they will withdraw for a while and come up with a new tactic . Again , with the new tactic , they will push it to an extreme in order to test its usefulness . This is normal behavior ...
Page 171
... killed during the recent voodoo witch - hunt . Many of them , according to his report , were beaten and burned alive . He told me there were hundreds more killed by adherents of the Catholic and Protestant churches in a historic ...
... killed during the recent voodoo witch - hunt . Many of them , according to his report , were beaten and burned alive . He told me there were hundreds more killed by adherents of the Catholic and Protestant churches in a historic ...
Page 239
... killed . They expected a king and they got a martyr . Now in order to continue as a force they had to believe that Jesus , their leader , was still a force . If the Army here killed me , killed Sylvio Claude [ the Protestant pastor and ...
... killed . They expected a king and they got a martyr . Now in order to continue as a force they had to believe that Jesus , their leader , was still a force . If the Army here killed me , killed Sylvio Claude [ the Protestant pastor and ...
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