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Haiti Papers Over the Past: The Re-Branding of Baby Doc Duvalier
On Jan. 30, more than a year after former "President for Life" Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti, a Port-au-Prince judge concluded his lengthy...
Haiti Bad Times for Baby Doc
Like a hurricane born in the Caribbean and gathering momentum as it pushes northward, word spread last week that Jean-Claude Duvalier, 34, Haiti's...
Haiti’s ‘Baby Doc’ Spurns Court Again
(PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier defied a judge's order Thursday and refused to attend a hearing to determine whether he...
Q&A: Author Amy Wilentz and the Lure of Haiti
The award-winning writer tells TIME about her new book, 'Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti,' and her time reporting in that country
Religion: The Little Prophet of Haiti
In one of Haiti's cruelest slums, scores of quasi-government thugs known as Tonton Macoutes, wearing telltale red armbands, stormed into a crowded Sunday Mass,...
Haiti: A Hungry and Bolder Populace
"Down with misery and hunger!" the crowd shouted as it stormed through the northern coastal city of Cap-Haïtien last week, demanding an end to police brutality...
The Vatican: Things Must Change Here
The Pope ends his trip with a bold call for social justice The pilgrimage had been described as a "purely pastoral" visit. But as Pope John Paul IPs...
Milestones, Jun. 9, 1980
MARRIED. Jean-Claude Duvalier, 28, portly President for Life of Haiti; and Michéle Bennett, 27, daughter of a planter; she for the second time, he for the first;...
Duvalier 2.0? Rebranding Haiti's Former Dictator
The former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has spoken. After spending almost 25 years in exile in France, the self-proclaimed "President for...
The Secret's Out.
In this moneyed, waterfront city, locals sail their yachts in the sunset and fill the parking lots of fine restaurants with luxury cars, while billboards along...
Exiles of the Rich and Infamous
With war clouds darkening, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell have floated the idea that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's...
Starting Time
Person of the Week BALANCING ACT Switch-hitter Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to play ball with two big teams: China and the U.S. Just days after...
Secrets of a Professional Money-Tracker
STEPHEN VICKERSIf Indonesia is really serious about going after the Suharto family's wealth, here's how to proceed. The first mistake investigators make in a...
Haiti A New General Takes Command
The political turmoil that has gripped Haiti ever since the overthrow of Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986 has taken another dramatic turn. A military coup...
Haiti; Limping Toward Democracy
Perhaps the best that can be said of Haiti these days is that the worst has not come to pass. The country has not lapsed into civil war. The Tonton Macoutes,...
Haiti In the Land Where Hope Never Grows
At first light Mercius Pierre rises and leaves the stuffy interior of his mud hut. He opens the door and window that have been shut tight against strangers and...
HAITI: Enter Mama Doc
Citizen Doctor François Duvalier . . . has chosen Citizen Jean-Claude Duvalier to succeed him to the Presidency for Life of the Republic. Does this choice...
HAITI: Pooh-Bah
HAITI Pooh-Bah By invitation of the President, about 30 young Haitians leaped astride their yammering motorcycles one recent Sunday afternoon and raced wildly...
HAITI: Island of Hunger
Even in the best of times the tropical Caribbean island nation of Haiti has severe problems feeding itself. More than 80% of the country's 5 million people live...
A New Approach to the War on Terror?
How come after the successes in the war on terror since 9/11, it seems likes we’re still fighting the war on terror? There seems to be a bit of Lewis Carroll...
