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Article: Revenge of the Tonton Macoute. (Haitian terrorism)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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I sit on the long front porch of the hillside Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince and hear the shots below. In Haiti's capital it is not unusual to hear shots at night. I know the shots are the work of the zinglando, enforcing the will of the army.
Zinglando is a made-up Creole word. It comes from zinglan, the broken glass that Haitians cement atop their walls to keep out intruders. But the zinglando are the intruders, and they frighten - and sometimes kill - people in this poorest country of the Western Hemisphere.
The century-old Victorian Oloffson is a cachet for the terror that persists in this Caribbean nation of 6.5 million people. The Oloffson was ...
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