PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died ...

Though he was a dictator, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is remembered best for rarely being in control. He was thrust into power against his will in 1971, at the ridiculous age of 19, when his dying ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died ...

Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who inherited Haiti's presidency from his father in 1971 at age 19 and relinquished it amid protests at age 34, died Saturday in Port-au-Prince. He was 63. Together, ...

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 ...

This is an extract from Julian Vigo’s latest book to be released this month, Earthquake in Haiti: The Pornography of Poverty and the Politics of Development (Baobab Tree Books, 2014). A graffiti ...

Alongside her son Francois Nicolas Duvalier, left, Michele Bennett, the ex-wife of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, gets a hug from Colonel Joseph Baguidy, who was having ...

For its size, the island of Hispaniola—where Christopher Columbus landed in1492—can match its violent past and present with just about any place, including Cuba, the island next door. One end of the ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Claude Duvalier, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died ...