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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Page 94
... rain , standing pressed against a stone retaining wall , the figure seemed to shine . The little light left , almost ... Rain shut out my view for a second . Then the wipers . The figure again this time I could see that it was a man ...
... rain , standing pressed against a stone retaining wall , the figure seemed to shine . The little light left , almost ... Rain shut out my view for a second . Then the wipers . The figure again this time I could see that it was a man ...
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... rain would protect them . Fifteen minutes after the five cars with the priests , nuns and other invited lay people had gone , some friends from Port - au - Prince ar- rived at the Pont - Sondé residence and said that they had just come ...
... rain would protect them . Fifteen minutes after the five cars with the priests , nuns and other invited lay people had gone , some friends from Port - au - Prince ar- rived at the Pont - Sondé residence and said that they had just come ...
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... rainfall going . They absorb the rain from the skies , and then the sun heats it back out of them , creating the humidity that again forms the clouds that will bring the rain once more , and water for the seed . Haitian peasants know ...
... rainfall going . They absorb the rain from the skies , and then the sun heats it back out of them , creating the humidity that again forms the clouds that will bring the rain once more , and water for the seed . Haitian peasants know ...
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