Who was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown in a popular uprising in 1986?
Correct answer: Jean-Claude Duvalier
Hugh
knowbrains, deplorable, but typical. Dictators often behave in a flamboyant style.
quicksilver
"Baby Doc"
Haitian Queen
his reign was before my time, but my parents left Haiti because of him and the day after they left, their home was burned and farmland was stolen.
Player #49699886
Both him and his father had their hands in the corruption that lead to the downfall of their country.
Foncilla
The Haitian “death squads” under both Papa Doc and Baby Doc were called; the Ton Ton Macoute, and they murdered and “disappeared” thousands of innocent Haitians. They used machetes.
45
back then was a paradise compared to today
TurtleRox
Went to Haiti in 1972. Very interesting place with wonderful food and people. We went walking in a neighborhood and saw a Lamborghini in a shed and looked across the street and saw a women with her laundry in a basket on her head leading an oxen down toward the river. Also saw fires in the country with people doing(?) voodoo near them. Pretty amazing place.
Player #97816505
Haitian Queen, what an evil man also his wife and father.
R+T#1/2 o+b#45/46
Went into Haiti in 1971 with the Marine Corps off the USS Inchon. Poorest place I had ever been. People were pretty good, but a lot of beggars. TADed to Cuba in 1994-95 where the US put 15000 Haitians and 15000 Cubans trying to get to vetted to escape communist and dictators. These people convinced me to be conservative.
meldawg
Hugh, As do American politicians (e.g. Congress, Senate, House of Reps, etc etc etc)!