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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... Port - au- Prince , and that they would be willing to pay him thirteen dollars for each package . That was a lot of money for something that had cost him nothing , and the priest said yes , although he was disturbed at getting so much ...
... Port - au- Prince , and that they would be willing to pay him thirteen dollars for each package . That was a lot of money for something that had cost him nothing , and the priest said yes , although he was disturbed at getting so much ...
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... Port - au - Prince feel that way even if they've never been addicted . The Disco Doctor is extreme , though . He'll drive all the way to the northernmost city of Cap - Haïtien to find someone to spend the night with , if he has to . He ...
... Port - au - Prince feel that way even if they've never been addicted . The Disco Doctor is extreme , though . He'll drive all the way to the northernmost city of Cap - Haïtien to find someone to spend the night with , if he has to . He ...
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... Port - au - Prince , the Catholic priests were openly at the vanguard of an uprising , the Macoutes were frightened , insecure , and the government informer was no longer sure who was bankrolling him . The Duvaliers were on their way ...
... Port - au - Prince , the Catholic priests were openly at the vanguard of an uprising , the Macoutes were frightened , insecure , and the government informer was no longer sure who was bankrolling him . The Duvaliers were on their way ...
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... Port - au - Prince , " Heidi was saying to an Associated Press photographer , who looked around his table , crowded with other run - down - looking photographers , and smirked . They had all been down now for a couple of days , and so ...
... Port - au - Prince , " Heidi was saying to an Associated Press photographer , who looked around his table , crowded with other run - down - looking photographers , and smirked . They had all been down now for a couple of days , and so ...
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... Port - au - Prince . All of Michèle's mulatto friends began to do better socially and economically . What the Haitian people saw and resented as Michèle's family ascended was the renaissance of the mulatto elite , which had ruled the ...
... Port - au - Prince . All of Michèle's mulatto friends began to do better socially and economically . What the Haitian people saw and resented as Michèle's family ascended was the renaissance of the mulatto elite , which had ruled the ...
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