The Rainy Season: Haiti Since DuvalierThis welcome interpretation of Haiti provides many insights into a country that few North Americans understand. Wilentz, a journalist, captures the complex cultural ambience and mystery of domestic politics with a penetrating eye and powerful description. Covering the years 1986-89, Wilentz analyzes political developments, centering her interpretations on the activities of a radical priest, interspersed with individual Haitian portraits and personal incidents. The flavor of Haiti is superbly conveyed, as are some unsavory aspects of the role of the press, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. embassy, but Wilentz's narrative is often unclear and her objectivity flawed. For academic and large public libraries.-- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia . -Library Journal. |
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... machetes and guns , and the people from Port - au - Prince feared it had been built to ambush and assassinate Aristide . At St. - Marc , just before Freycineau , the five cars returning to Port - au - Prince were stopped at the Army's ...
... machetes and guns , and the people from Port - au - Prince feared it had been built to ambush and assassinate Aristide . At St. - Marc , just before Freycineau , the five cars returning to Port - au - Prince were stopped at the Army's ...
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... machetes in hand . Some of them seemed to be trying to see down the hill , around a bend , and I guessed that this was where something had happened . When we got to the main intersection leading out of Carrefour Feuilles and into the ...
... machetes in hand . Some of them seemed to be trying to see down the hill , around a bend , and I guessed that this was where something had happened . When we got to the main intersection leading out of Carrefour Feuilles and into the ...
Page 304
... machetes , against telephone poles , streetlights and wrought - iron gates and fences . There had been an impromptu , celebratory tenèb in town after Aristide made his triumphant reappearance at the ca- thedral . Every once in a while ...
... machetes , against telephone poles , streetlights and wrought - iron gates and fences . There had been an impromptu , celebratory tenèb in town after Aristide made his triumphant reappearance at the ca- thedral . Every once in a while ...
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