Building visited by creatives and politicians from around the world set alight by gangs as unrest grips country ...

Haiti’s once-illustrious Grand Hôtel Oloffson has been burned down by gangs this past weekend. The beloved Gothic gingerbread ...

According to Haiti's constitution, a President cannot succeed himself. Although his term legally expired on May 15, President Francois Duvalier remains in office. Like most of his predecessors ...

Laughing foreign reporters called him "Baby Doc", the son of his terrible, President Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, who had terrorised Haiti for 15 years until dying peacefully in bed.

No one was harmed in the attack, but François Duvalier responded with a series of indiscriminate reprisals against military officers he suspected of scheming against him.

President-for-life Jean-Claude Duvalier boarded a U.S. Air Force plane before dawn Friday and left for France, ending 28 years of control of the Caribbean nation by his family. Celebrating Haitians… ...

Francois Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude — known respectively as “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” — ruled Haiti between 1957 and 1986, their successive reigns characterized by numerous harsh ...

The couple’s 30ish son, François Nicolas “Nico” Duvalier, is now an adviser to current president, Michel Joseph Martelly. In April 2013, the Haitian daily Le Nouvelliste published a story by Nico in ...

In the late 1960s, Francois Duvalier became increasingly sick from diabetes and heart disease. Sensing that death was closing in on him, he proposed another constitutional amendment in January ...

In 1971, Francois Duvalier suddenly died of an illness and named his son to succeed him. At 19, Jean-Claude Duvalier became the world’s youngest president.