Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... Namphy declared it was illegal not to vote , and the Army would round up voters . Familiar faces from the Duvalier regime were now candi- dates , some less implicated than others . It reminded Haitians of the times when 99.9 percent of ...
... Namphy declared it was illegal not to vote , and the Army would round up voters . Familiar faces from the Duvalier regime were now candi- dates , some less implicated than others . It reminded Haitians of the times when 99.9 percent of ...
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... Namphy came up with an insight : " L'Armée Nationale a pour devoir de servir et non de tuer . " ( " The National Army has the duty of serving , not killing . " ) An editorial in Haiti Liberée compared General Namphy to Charles de Gaulle ...
... Namphy came up with an insight : " L'Armée Nationale a pour devoir de servir et non de tuer . " ( " The National Army has the duty of serving , not killing . " ) An editorial in Haiti Liberée compared General Namphy to Charles de Gaulle ...
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... Namphy soon packed him off to a hotel in Santo Do- mingo , where he slept in what came to be known as " the Presidential Suite " because so many Haitian leaders stopped there on the way to nowhere . Then Colonel Prosper Avril sent ...
... Namphy soon packed him off to a hotel in Santo Do- mingo , where he slept in what came to be known as " the Presidential Suite " because so many Haitian leaders stopped there on the way to nowhere . Then Colonel Prosper Avril sent ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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