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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Page 132
This put Aristide oddly enough close to the camp of Nam- phy's National Council
of Government and the Army, both of which feared the erosion of their powers
that even moderately free elections would ineluctably bring about. Namphy was a
...
This put Aristide oddly enough close to the camp of Nam- phy's National Council
of Government and the Army, both of which feared the erosion of their powers
that even moderately free elections would ineluctably bring about. Namphy was a
...
Page 337
Namphy was back, the light-skinned, twinkly-eyed villain of Haiti's latest
nightmare. As I watched him make tough speech after speech in the weeks that
followed, speeches about the unchallenged might of the Army, I kept
remembering the ...
Namphy was back, the light-skinned, twinkly-eyed villain of Haiti's latest
nightmare. As I watched him make tough speech after speech in the weeks that
followed, speeches about the unchallenged might of the Army, I kept
remembering the ...
Page 359
If Namphy did not fall, people were saying, his new regime would be the
bloodiest yet in Haitian history. General Prosper Avril, the Duvalier adviser who
had helped bring Namphy back to power, made a brief visit to Washington that
week.
If Namphy did not fall, people were saying, his new regime would be the
bloodiest yet in Haitian history. General Prosper Avril, the Duvalier adviser who
had helped bring Namphy back to power, made a brief visit to Washington that
week.
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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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