Involving criminal leaders in Haiti’s next government is a dangerous and ludicrous idea. By Jean-Philippe Austin How did the modern world’s most successful slave revolt give birth to a desperately ...

The U.S. had about run out of patience with François Duvalier, the hard-eyed dictator who holds ruthless power in Haiti. All aid—amounting to $7,250,000 this year—to Duvalier’s graft-ridden regime has ...

Francois Duvalier, like many Haitians, had deeply resented this foreign occupation. Although he later worked with U.S.-sponsored public health programs, helping cure Haitian peasants of tropical ...

The scraps of paper came in pink, red, green, blue and yellow. But they all said the same thing: “Citizen Dr. François Duvalier, President of the Republic, will exercise for life his high functions ...

The government of Jean-Claude Duvalier established its roots 28 years ago when his father, Francois Duvalier, became president in an election that followed a turbulent period of military coups and ...

January 1971 - Haiti’s National Assembly approves a constitutional amendment which allows Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier to appoint someone under 40 years old as his successor. April 21, 1971 - ...