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Notes on Papa Doc Duvalier
Bob Corbett's notes
Heinl portrait, see p. 586. Huge treatment of Duvalier through 620s
- Born: April 14, 1907
- Father: Duval Duvalier teacher, journalist, justice of the peace.
- Mother: Uritia Abraham bakery employee
- Attended Lycee Petion
- Worked on a newspaper Action Nationale and used the non de plume ABDERRAHMAN
- 1938 Papa Doc helped found Les Griots (poets, story tellers) focus on negritude with Lorimer Denis.
- Hospice Saint Francois de Sales (did his internship)
- Dec. 27, 1939 married Simone Ovide Faine a nurse. They had four children:
- Marie Denise
- Simone
- Nicole
- Jean-Claude
- 1943--1946 Asst. to U.S. Army medical mission. Also did two term in public health at Michigan U.
- Sept. 22, 1957 election of Duvalier over Dejoie and Jumelle
- Duvalier led a fairly popular regime outside all traditional power groups.
- June, 1960. Cri de Jacmel. Written by Clovis Desinor. Roger Dorsainville wrote most of Duvalier's speeches.
- P. 212 Nicholls--1979 Thesis:
Mistaken view:
- Duvalier cynical power/wealth hungry
- Duvalier under the influence of Voodoo.
Rather:
Plan to follow Estime's plan of transfer of power to Black middle class and not make the same mistake of Estime--lack of forcefulness.- See final quote in Nicholls notes.
- Note: Nicholls, p. 191. Too many invasions too early which suggested a larger issue than Duvalier's terror.
- 1964, May 22. President for life. (Heinl, p. 643.)
- Heinl, p. 648-649 has excellent passage on the brain drain in Duvalier times.
Heinl, p. 622 talks of CIA support of various revolutionaries in 1960s up to 1968. There was a Nov. 1975 investigation.
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