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Article: Exorcising Haiti.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 25, 1986
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EXORCISING HAITI
IT BEGAN the day my wife and I flew back to Haiti for our usual four months in Jacmel. A lovely hill town overlooking the Caribbean, Jacmel is renowned for its iron-balconied homes, its uninhibited Mardi Gras in the streets, its inventive artists; and for the gentleness and affectionate nature of its people. But few living in Jacmel were unaware of the banked fires of resentment that had been heating up there and all over Haiti.
True, the coals had taken a long time to burst into flame; the elder Duvalier had established his tyranny in 1957. But on this day, November 26, 29 years later, the smoldering embers could no longer be ...