JadussD
08-20-2004, 06:02 AM
A little background information on Jean-Claude Duvalier, President of Haiti, from http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/duvalier.htmhttp://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/duvalier.htm</a>
1971 - The constitution is amended in January to permit Duvalier to name his son, Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) as his successor.
François Duvalier dies on 21 April in Port-au-Prince. Power is transferred to Baby Doc, who at the age of 19 becomes the youngest president in the world.
Bending to pressure from the US and at home, Baby Doc introduces economic and judicial reforms, reopens the military academy, releases some political prisoners and eases media censorship. But no political opposition is tolerated and the president retains the power to appoint officials and judges.
Haiti remains diplomatically isolated. Corruption reaches new heights. The US Commerce Department reports misappropriation of 64% of Haiti's government revenues. Tens of millions of dollars are diverted from public funds for "extra-budgetary expenses," including deposits to Baby Doc's Swiss bank accounts.
1985 - Baby Doc gets 99% of the vote in a fraudulent election. Popular demonstrations against high unemployment, poor living conditions, and the lack of political freedom break out late in the year and early in 1986.
On 28 November 1985, in the provincial capital of Gonaïves, soldiers chase demonstrators into a schoolyard and shoot and kill three schoolboys who were not involved in the protest. The incident leads to more demonstrations and riots.
1986 - With the Tontons Macoutes unable to repress the mounting social unrest and the military pressing for his abdication, Baby Doc and his wife accept assistance from the US and flee the country for France on 7 February.
Baby Doc leaves behind an impoverished and ruined country. Well over half of Haiti's workers are unemployed. Over 80% of Haitians are illiterate. Almost a third of Haitian children die before their fifth birthday. Life expectancy is 53 years. Per capita income is US$300 a year.
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1971 - The constitution is amended in January to permit Duvalier to name his son, Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) as his successor.
François Duvalier dies on 21 April in Port-au-Prince. Power is transferred to Baby Doc, who at the age of 19 becomes the youngest president in the world.
Bending to pressure from the US and at home, Baby Doc introduces economic and judicial reforms, reopens the military academy, releases some political prisoners and eases media censorship. But no political opposition is tolerated and the president retains the power to appoint officials and judges.
Haiti remains diplomatically isolated. Corruption reaches new heights. The US Commerce Department reports misappropriation of 64% of Haiti's government revenues. Tens of millions of dollars are diverted from public funds for "extra-budgetary expenses," including deposits to Baby Doc's Swiss bank accounts.
1985 - Baby Doc gets 99% of the vote in a fraudulent election. Popular demonstrations against high unemployment, poor living conditions, and the lack of political freedom break out late in the year and early in 1986.
On 28 November 1985, in the provincial capital of Gonaïves, soldiers chase demonstrators into a schoolyard and shoot and kill three schoolboys who were not involved in the protest. The incident leads to more demonstrations and riots.
1986 - With the Tontons Macoutes unable to repress the mounting social unrest and the military pressing for his abdication, Baby Doc and his wife accept assistance from the US and flee the country for France on 7 February.
Baby Doc leaves behind an impoverished and ruined country. Well over half of Haiti's workers are unemployed. Over 80% of Haitians are illiterate. Almost a third of Haitian children die before their fifth birthday. Life expectancy is 53 years. Per capita income is US$300 a year.
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