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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... massacre and had been chased away by the attackers up John Brown and into hiding . The panic even among the most professional was alarming . Those who had been cornered at the polling place inside the school on Ruelle Vaillant where the ...
... massacre and had been chased away by the attackers up John Brown and into hiding . The panic even among the most professional was alarming . Those who had been cornered at the polling place inside the school on Ruelle Vaillant where the ...
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... massacred . The attackers left , then returned and bore down on the journalists who had come to record the results of the massacre . Journalists ' cars , parked on Ruelle Vaillant and recogniz- able by their location , or rental ...
... massacred . The attackers left , then returned and bore down on the journalists who had come to record the results of the massacre . Journalists ' cars , parked on Ruelle Vaillant and recogniz- able by their location , or rental ...
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... massacres at Jean - Rabel , Ruelle Vaillant or St. - Jean - Bosco . No one had been arrested in the wake of government ... massacre at Ruelle Vaillant had turned Namphy into an embarrassment to the United States . The signing of the ...
... massacres at Jean - Rabel , Ruelle Vaillant or St. - Jean - Bosco . No one had been arrested in the wake of government ... massacre at Ruelle Vaillant had turned Namphy into an embarrassment to the United States . The signing of the ...
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