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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Haiti, Verdieu said, was to reduce self-sufficient farming, thereby causing
peasants to migrate to Port-au-Prince, where they would provide a useful and
very cheap labor force to work in American assembly factories. Food aid would
be used to ...
Haiti, Verdieu said, was to reduce self-sufficient farming, thereby causing
peasants to migrate to Port-au-Prince, where they would provide a useful and
very cheap labor force to work in American assembly factories. Food aid would
be used to ...
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Haiti since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. Plan." The rain came in through the roof of the
Holiday Inn during a press conference held by opposition leaders, and splashed
down on Victor Benoit's head. One of his supporters in the Group of Fifty- seven ...
Haiti since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. Plan." The rain came in through the roof of the
Holiday Inn during a press conference held by opposition leaders, and splashed
down on Victor Benoit's head. One of his supporters in the Group of Fifty- seven ...
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Haiti since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. Jonassaint, Jean. Le Pouvoir des mots, les
maux du pouvoir: Des romanciers haïtiens de l'exil. Paris and Montreal:
Arcantere/PUM, 1986. Komgold, Ralph. Citizen Toussaint. Boston: Little, Brown,
1944.
Haiti since Duvalier Amy Wilentz. Jonassaint, Jean. Le Pouvoir des mots, les
maux du pouvoir: Des romanciers haïtiens de l'exil. Paris and Montreal:
Arcantere/PUM, 1986. Komgold, Ralph. Citizen Toussaint. Boston: Little, Brown,
1944.
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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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