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The Militant
January 27, 2018
Weeks after revoking Temporary Protected Status for tens of thousands of Haitians living and working in the U.S., the Donald Trump administration barred Haitians from obtaining visas for temporary work in agriculture and other industries Jan. 17. Do these moves indicate that Trump — as most liberals andÃÂ ...
Amandala
January 27, 2018
So, when I got to Miami I moved from one chute to another chute, to my connecting plane. I was damned happy I didn't have to touch their soil. In high school, at Compre, we were taught a little West Indian history. The persons who got the most attention were the Duvaliers, Papa and Baby Doc. In the 1970sÃÂ ...
Progressive.org
January 24, 2018
After Papa Doc died in 1971, U.S. support of the dictatorship under his son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, became even more entrenched. In the 1970s, both Haiti and El ... If we consider Trump's racism in the light of history, it is quite in keeping with that of his forty-four predecessors. Black and brownÃÂ ...
Snopes.com
January 18, 2018
On 7 February 1986, facing a domestic populist revolt and international pressure to step down, embattled President of Haiti Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, fled his country for exile in France onboard a United States Air Force jet. A New York Times obituary from 4 October 2014 described his rule overÃÂ ...
The Independent
January 12, 2018
Haiti has the proud history of being the only nation created by an uprising of slaves. But since that revolution culminated in the ... Between 1956 and 1986, the country was dominated by the murderous dictators Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son, Baby Doc. Four years after Baby Doc fled to France,ÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
January 12, 2018
The Haitian government claimed in the 1980s that ousted dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier laundered stolen treasury funds when he bought Trump Tower apartment 54-K for $446,875 in August 1983. Duvalier used a Panama shell company called Lasa Trade and Finance to buy the apartment in cash. TrumpÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 12, 2018
The late dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, a.k.a. Baby Doc, stole hundreds of millions. ... It goes like this: In 1939, when World War II broke out, Haiti, a pioneer of freedom, having led the most successful slave rebellion in the history of the world, joined the Allied forces and declared war on Nazi Germany.
Snopes.com
January 12, 2018
Motorcycle taxi driver Jean-Paul Maxon said he was angry that the president seemed to be unaware of Haiti's proud history as the first independent ... In more recent times, the U.S. supported the brutal dictator “Papa Doc” Francois Duvalier as well as the son who succeeded him until he in turn was ousted.
Vox
January 12, 2018
I know Trump doesn't care or care to know about America's history in Haiti, but for anyone listening to his shithole remarks, don't forget the US ... The US also supported the regime of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who oversaw a reign of terror that fueled a mass exodus from the island nation. And, asÃÂ ...
Amsterdam News
December 31, 1999
America supported Papa Doc, Jean-Claude Duvalier, a murderer, a dictator; America supported him. Murdering Haitian people because he, along with Baby Doc, allowed for the exploitation of Haiti; that's what America did. That's what America did. And so we sit here and, yes, Trump needs to be hit everyÃÂ ...
Virginian-Pilot
December 31, 1999
Our first stop was to be welcomed into the former office of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who had just been deposed. From what ... It is the same experience that would-be immigrants to America have longed for since the beginning, and it is the tapestry of our American history and culture.
Variety
November 7, 2017
... stole Safer's interview with Haiti's Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier amid ... other presidential interviews in the history of the show combined.
New Statesman
October 18, 2017
Haiti's history in the past hundred years has also been marked by political oppression. Under the rule of "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier ...
CBS News
March 3, 2017
... Institute for Mineral Resources, according to an official biography. ... uprising ousted Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, ...
TIME
October 9, 2014
Former leader of Haiti Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier waves from a balcony following a press conference at his house in Petionville January ...
The Economist
October 9, 2014
Even his father, the much-feared Papa Doc, had been heard to say that his ... foreign aid came in, to be smartly diverted into Duvalier pockets.
CNN
July 16, 2013
His father's nickname while president of Haiti was Papa Doc. His was Baby Doc. Duvalier was accused of embezzlement, corruption and ...
Aiken Standard
September 13, 2017
He has an amazingly rich history with the Department of State, Haiti, Africa ... recall, included the eras of Papa Doc and then Baby Doc Duvalier.
tirto.id (Siaran Pers) (Blog)
September 9, 2017
Diktator berjuluk Baby Doc itu punya keyakinan yang serupa dengan ayahnya, ... Lekatnya keluarga Duvalier dengan voodoo bisa ditelusuri dari ... buku The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (2009).
The Urban Twist
August 16, 2017
What was life like under Papa and Baby Doc? What was it in Haiti's history that allowed the Duvaliers to emerge and remain entrenched inÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
July 31, 2017
... but Latin American history is a master class in U.S.-backed coups. ... Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier in Haiti and then his son, “Baby Doc” withÃÂ ...
War Is Boring
July 30, 2017
And all warned of the risk that the violent and abusive history of Haiti's ... Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude, also known as “Baby Doc.”.
Insightcrime.org
July 28, 2017
And all warned of the risk that the violent and abusive history of Haiti's ... Doc" Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude, also known as "Baby Doc.
The Boston Globe
July 2, 2017
Baby Doc Duvalier. ... It's not hard to argue that white men have done more harm in history — from the keeping of slaves to the genocide ofÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 3, 2017
... Institute for Mineral Resources, according to an official biography. ... uprising ousted Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier,ÃÂ ...
CBS News
March 3, 2017
... Institute for Mineral Resources, according to an official biography. ... uprising ousted Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier,ÃÂ ...
MiamiHerald.com
October 11, 2014
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier was cremated Saturday, according to ... “It is still too early for the judgment of history to clearly establishÃÂ ...
The Economist
October 9, 2014
Even his father, the much-feared Papa Doc, had been heard to say that his ... to have made a pact with the devil to keep the Duvaliers in power.
New York Times
October 4, 2014
Jean-Claude Duvalier, a former president of Haiti known as Baby Doc who ruled the country with a bloody brutality and then shocked it anewÃÂ ...
CNN
July 16, 2013
His father's nickname while president of Haiti was Papa Doc. His was Baby Doc. ... amendment which allows Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to appoint someone ... from the people and ask for the impartial judgment of history.".
San Bernardino County Sun
March 19, 2017
The last bit of Cook's statement, regarding disinformation, also raises a bit of history. According to research ... This includes American meddling in Italy in 1948, in Haiti after the overthrow of our tyrannical ally "Baby Doc" Duvalier and even in ...
MPNnow.com
March 19, 2017
In case you are unfamiliar with history, Merkel had not won election yet in 2002. Did the U.S. attempt to influence German elections?
Fast Company
March 10, 2017
The Ocean Club's official website explains that the goal was to build "the most spectacular development in Panama's history," and Trump called it "one of the most beautiful buildings in the world." Trump tweeted that the building had .... Among these ...
NYCaribNews
March 10, 2017
It speaks volumes that in the 210-plus year history of the world's first Black republic that Rene Garcia Preval was the only freely elected president of Haiti to win and complete two term in office.
동아일보
March 7, 2017
She is said to have praised former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier during her visit to Haiti in 1981.
Herald-Whig
March 4, 2017
Five years later, he returned to Haiti and worked at the National Institute for Mineral Resources, according to an official biography. In 1988, two years after a popular uprising ousted Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Preval returned ...
Los Angeles Times
March 3, 2017
His father, Claude, was an agronomist who served under President Paul Magloire and fled during the early years of the dictatorship of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Preval earned an agronomy degree from Gembloux Agricultural University in Belgium andÃÂ ...
GlobalAtlanta
March 2, 2017
The "Bobi" to whom she referred is Robert Duval, a Haitian human rights activist who in 1975 was imprisoned without charges at the Fort Dimanche prison where hundreds of opponents of the then-president, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, were condemned ...
KUOW News and Information
February 14, 2017
Reviewing the documentary in The New York Times, A. O. Scott praised it for insisting on uncomfortable truths and drawing stark lessons from the shadows of history. Baldwin chose to spend ..... And then Papa Doc Duvalier took over the country and ...
Jacobin magazine
February 13, 2017
After the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, Haiti's poor majority turned out en masse for general elections, but that cycle appears to be broken.
Center for Research on Globalization
January 9, 2017
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries - it's done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.
Herald and News
December 25, 2016
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries - it's done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University ...
Mintpress News (blog)
December 23, 2016
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries - it's done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University ...
Mintpress News (blog)
December 23, 2016
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries - it's done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University ...
Los Angeles Times
December 21, 2016
The CIA has accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 presidential election by hacking into Democratic and Republican computer networks and selectively releasing emails.
Miami New Times
December 14, 2016
Despite Haiti's long history of turbulent politics and natural disaster, mass migrations to the United States are a recent phenomenon.
Jacobin magazine
December 13, 2016
The Haitians absconding from "Baby Doc" Duvalier's Haiti met a different fate. .... According to journalist Wayne Barrett, who wrote a biography of Giuliani, only 5 percent of complaints to the Civilian Complaint Review Board were ever substantiated by ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 5, 2016
The most highly vetted officials coming from Harvard University have implemented economic policies leading to the worst crises in the shortest time in world history. Lawrence Summers, PhD and Harvard University ... Racial identity never prevented three ...
Atlanta Black Star
December 5, 2016
A discriminatory immigration policy is but one example in the larger picture of the U.S.'s history of racism against Haiti, however.
The Salem News
December 5, 2016
Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier was president of Haiti from 1971 to 1986. (Editor's note: This caption has been updated since its ... But we were both widely read and argued often and intensely about capitalism, poverty, government, human nature ...
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