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 353
When hours after the attack began , the police came in and evacuated the
congregants who were still hiding inside the inner courtyard , the body of a man
dressed in white for the Constitution lay face down in a puddle of blood halfway
across ...
When hours after the attack began , the police came in and evacuated the
congregants who were still hiding inside the inner courtyard , the body of a man
dressed in white for the Constitution lay face down in a puddle of blood halfway
across ...
Page 356
The hurricane lay down a slippery floor of water on the road up to St . - Gérard
Church in Carrefour Feuilles near the Oloffson , and thwarted those who had
schemed to attack the chapel . Gilbert quashed a plan for a night search of the
hospital ...
The hurricane lay down a slippery floor of water on the road up to St . - Gérard
Church in Carrefour Feuilles near the Oloffson , and thwarted those who had
schemed to attack the chapel . Gilbert quashed a plan for a night search of the
hospital ...
Page 368
The message — which also included a long - awaited condemnation of the attack
on the Sunday mass celebration at St . - Jean - Bosco , without mentioning the
name either of the church or of the priest who was celebrating the mass — ended
...
The message — which also included a long - awaited condemnation of the attack
on the Sunday mass celebration at St . - Jean - Bosco , without mentioning the
name either of the church or of the priest who was celebrating the mass — ended
...
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| Title | The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier A Touchstone Book |
| 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 |
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