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History of papa doc duvalier

          Duvalier graduated in from the University of Haiti School of Medicine, where he served as a hospital staff physician until , when he.

        1. Although patently a dictator who would not hesitate to kill his enemies in order to main tain his power over the black Republic of Haiti.
        2. Repression.
        3. During –, US officials responsible for relations with Haiti faced three overriding questions: how closely should the United States become associated.
        4. François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician and voodooist who served as the president of Haiti from until his death in He was elected president in the general election on a populist and black nationalist.

          5. Repression..

          Papa Doc Duvalier: The Voodoo President who killed Kennedy

          &#;He was four when a revolution ousted [Gerenal Antoine Simon],&#; recalled Bernard Dierderich and Al Burt in their study Papa Doc, &#;and five when an explosion reduced the old wooden Palais National and President Cincinnatus Leconte along with it to splinters.

          &#;Duvalier was six when President Tancrède Auguste was poisoned; his funeral was interrupted when two generals began fighting over his succession… One Michel Oreste got the job, but he was overthrown the following year by a man named Zamor, who in turn fell a year later to Davilmar Theodore.&#;

          Plagued by chronic political instability, when the populist François &#;Papa Doc&#; Duvalier was elected president of the Republic of Haiti on 22 October you could have been forgiven for thinking that the crisis-rocked Caribbean state was about to turn a corner.

          Forget that in some regions the number of pro-Duvalier votes returned were in excess of the actual population