François Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” respectively, used violence as a tool to squash dissent. In Haiti, the Duvaliers controlled the ...

After being elected president of Haiti in 1957, François Duvalier thwarting a military coup d’état in 1958 and established a dictatorship that he and his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, controlled ...

Haiti probably has less to celebrate than any other country on earth. Yet last week, in a four-day binge that it could ill afford, it celebrated the 60th birthday and tenth anniversary in power of ...

The internal exoneration of Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s bodyguards raises disturbing questions about power, impunity ...

“Special military operation.” “Department of Government Efficiency.” “Enhanced interrogation techniques.” “Alternative facts.” We live in a time when governments use lexical ...

Special military operation.” “Department of Government Efficiency.” “Enhanced interrogation techniques.” “Alternative facts.” ...

Filmmaker Raoul Peck Peck was born in Haiti but as a child he and his family fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to escape the dictatorial regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier ...

There, conditions are so bleak under Dictator François (“Papa Doc”) Duvalier that the country is hardly in better shape than when it won independence from France in 1804. Determined to give ...