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Cutting a Deal: Baby Doc's Retirement Fund

By Bryan Schaaf on Friday, June 1, 2007.
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Baby Doc DuvalierSwitzerland has been holding US 6.2 million dollars in accounts that were established by Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Since his exile in 1986, he has been living quite cozily in France though it has been said Simone, his ex-wife, made off with most of the funds. Read more »

Haiti: Where Batteries Go to Die

By Bryan Schaaf on Friday, June 1, 2007.
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batteriesTake a walk through a Haitian village and you are very likely to see batteries strewn alongside the road. Electricity is minimal meaning that radios, flashlights, and other devices we take for granted require batteries. Read more »

Death of Francois Latour, Haitian Journalist

By Robert Miller on Friday, June 1, 2007.
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latourFrancois Latour, a well-respected Haitian journalist, was kidnapped and killed on May 23rd.  Similar to Jean Dominique, he was loved by the people for speaking in Kreyol instead of French.  What set him apart from Dominique though was that Francois rarely discussed controverial political issues, whereas that was Jean's rai Read more »