Papa doc duvalier biography of albert
François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was a physician who was elected president of Haiti in the , and after thwarting a military coup d'état in....
It celebrated the 60th birthday and tenth anniversary in power of the man who has made the country the mess it is: Francois (“Papa Doc”) Duvalier.
Duvalier family
– hereditary dictatorship in Haiti
The Duvalier family popularly known as Duvalier family (French: Dynastie des Duvalier, Haitian Creole: Dinasti Duvalier) was an autocratic hereditary dictatorship in Haiti that lasted almost 29 years, from until , spanning the rule of the father-and-son duo Dr.
François Duvalier (Papa Doc) and Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc).[2][3][4][5]
History
Direct elections, the first in Haiti's history, were held in October , and Paul Magloire, an elite black Colonel in the military, was elected.
Hurricane Hazel hit the island in , devastating the nation's infrastructure and economy. Hurricane relief was inadequately distributed and misspent, and Magloire jailed opponents and shut down newspapers. After he refused to step down after his term ended, a general strike shut down Port-au-Prince's economy, and Magloire fled, leaving the government in a state of chaos.
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