Here is a brief chronology of milestones in the life of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier: — April 1971: Haitian dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier dies and his teenage son, ...
Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who ruled the impoverished Caribbean nation with an iron fist from 1971 until his ouster in 1986, died of a heart attack. He was 63. The death ...
The former despot known as “”Baby Doc”” was led through the posh Karibe Hotel in Petionville by a contingent of heavily armed police. He did not say anything as he was escorted through the back of the ...
The media swarm over the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake had begun to quell, when in waltzed the former dictator who had made a run for it 25 years ago amid the fierce protests which finally ...
In the past 12 months, Haiti — already the western hemisphere’s economic basket case — has suffered an epic earthquake that according to latest estimates killed more than 250,000 people and leveled ...