The rainy season: Haiti since DuvalierRecounting a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti's extraordinary past, the author brings to life the day-to-day realities of the politically turbulent country |
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After the plane took off, our thirty or forty cars followed a van filled with Duvalier's
people and Aubelin Jolicoeur to the U.S. Embassy. Aubelin jumped out. At four in
the morning, the embassy lights were on, but the gates were closed. "Let me in," ...
After the plane took off, our thirty or forty cars followed a van filled with Duvalier's
people and Aubelin Jolicoeur to the U.S. Embassy. Aubelin jumped out. At four in
the morning, the embassy lights were on, but the gates were closed. "Let me in," ...
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Max Beauvoir, a voodoo priest whose Continental smoothness made him a
favorite at American Embassy parties, flinched at the sound of Aristide's name.
Well connected to American reporters and embassy officials alike because he
speaks ...
Max Beauvoir, a voodoo priest whose Continental smoothness made him a
favorite at American Embassy parties, flinched at the sound of Aristide's name.
Well connected to American reporters and embassy officials alike because he
speaks ...
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This little phrase stuck in the Well-Placed Embassy Official's mind the next day.
Wouj, or red: there was something about that color, and Aristide. The combination
got to the Well-Placed Embassy Official. "That little priest is talking violence ...
This little phrase stuck in the Well-Placed Embassy Official's mind the next day.
Wouj, or red: there was something about that color, and Aristide. The combination
got to the Well-Placed Embassy Official. "That little priest is talking violence ...
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| Title | The rainy season: Haiti since Duvalier |
| Author | Amy Wilentz |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0671641867, 9780671641863 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General Political Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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