The Rainy Season: Haiti—Then and NowConsidered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti’s President-for-Life, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it’s over—Wilentz’s Haiti haunts the imagination. |
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... Duvalier's enemies . The Cagoulards had French antecedents — a right - wing group called the Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action had worn black hoods and frightened the French from 1935 to 1940. The Haitian Cagoulards themselves ...
... Duvalier's enemies . The Cagoulards had French antecedents — a right - wing group called the Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action had worn black hoods and frightened the French from 1935 to 1940. The Haitian Cagoulards themselves ...
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... Duvalier's henchmen , comes from a figure in Haitian nursery stories , a bogeyman who creeps up in the night and disappears naughty little children into his macoute , Creole for the straw shoulder satchel worn by many peasant men ...
... Duvalier's henchmen , comes from a figure in Haitian nursery stories , a bogeyman who creeps up in the night and disappears naughty little children into his macoute , Creole for the straw shoulder satchel worn by many peasant men ...
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... Duvalier was determined not to be undone himself . He was a careful student of Haitian history . Less than twenty years after the slaves wrested power from the French in 1804 , he knew , the black former - slave leadership had been ...
... Duvalier was determined not to be undone himself . He was a careful student of Haitian history . Less than twenty years after the slaves wrested power from the French in 1804 , he knew , the black former - slave leadership had been ...
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... Duvalier's departure , but instead we got nothing , a blank screen that we watched all night . " I tried to get a session with Michèle , " the dark - haired photographer told me , while the international press corps waited day in and ...
... Duvalier's departure , but instead we got nothing , a blank screen that we watched all night . " I tried to get a session with Michèle , " the dark - haired photographer told me , while the international press corps waited day in and ...
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... Duvalier's jeep downtown , and he stepped out , wearing khaki and surrounded by soldiers . He shook hands warily with a few people who looked surprised but acted friendly . Others , off in the distance , stared at him . as though he ...
... Duvalier's jeep downtown , and he stepped out , wearing khaki and surrounded by soldiers . He shook hands warily with a few people who looked surprised but acted friendly . Others , off in the distance , stared at him . as though he ...
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