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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I'd been there before and I knew a couple of the girls, Nina and Olga, and skinny
Rosa. Most of the girls were from Haiti's neighbor, the Dominican Republic;
people told me that Haitian men preferred the Dominican girls' light color — the
color ...
I'd been there before and I knew a couple of the girls, Nina and Olga, and skinny
Rosa. Most of the girls were from Haiti's neighbor, the Dominican Republic;
people told me that Haitian men preferred the Dominican girls' light color — the
color ...
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On the way out to the airport to greet Father Rene Poirier, who was returning in
triumph from the exile into which Namphy had shoved him, three girls in the
backseat of my car kept chanting, "Viv Legliz Popile. " We stopped at the traffic
light at ...
On the way out to the airport to greet Father Rene Poirier, who was returning in
triumph from the exile into which Namphy had shoved him, three girls in the
backseat of my car kept chanting, "Viv Legliz Popile. " We stopped at the traffic
light at ...
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shouted one of the girls, pointing. I looked, expecting for no reason other than the
little car's speed to see Aristide at the wheel. But no, the driver was the daughter
of the family to whom the priest had given his car after Freyci- neau, where their ...
shouted one of the girls, pointing. I looked, expecting for no reason other than the
little car's speed to see Aristide at the wheel. But no, the driver was the daughter
of the family to whom the priest had given his car after Freyci- neau, where their ...
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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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