Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, long in exile in Paris, returned to Haiti on the 16th and subsequently got detained, and then released though he is ordered to remain in the country. Why he returned after 25 years is very much unclear.
His flight in 1986 while still young, amid a popular uprising against his dictatorial rule that was aided by his private militia known as the Tontons Macoutes, coincided with the People Power Revolution in the Philippines, which I was trying to follow closely and which was my first lesson on international politics. Following the Marcos-Aquino saga, I inevitably turned to the pages that were reporting the turmoil in Haiti. Duvalier was succeeded by a priest of the liberation theology, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a radiant hope for the country that would turn out be a huge disappointment.
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