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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... pigs away ; he told Dieumerci that it was a government program . He promised that he would pay Dieumerci for the pigs , or bring him another , new kind of pig , an American pig . This was five or six years ago , Dieumerci says . The man ...
... pigs away ; he told Dieumerci that it was a government program . He promised that he would pay Dieumerci for the pigs , or bring him another , new kind of pig , an American pig . This was five or six years ago , Dieumerci says . The man ...
Page 185
... pig and smoothed some of it over him , and he went up . You could see each coarse pig hair burn off the skin , and when Abner scraped away the ash the pig's flesh was done a golden brown . They did one side , and then the other . After ...
... pig and smoothed some of it over him , and he went up . You could see each coarse pig hair burn off the skin , and when Abner scraped away the ash the pig's flesh was done a golden brown . They did one side , and then the other . After ...
Page 265
... pigs that have been imported through USAID to replace the black Haitian pigs killed in the swine - fever- eradication program . Those American pigs live in concrete houses with running water . They eat imported food . But the pig ...
... pigs that have been imported through USAID to replace the black Haitian pigs killed in the swine - fever- eradication program . Those American pigs live in concrete houses with running water . They eat imported food . But the pig ...
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