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President of Haiti from 1971 to 1986

Jean-Claude Duvalier (French:[ʒɑ̃kloddyvalje]; 3 July 1951 – 4 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (French: Bébé Doc, Haitian Creole: Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian dictator who ingrained the President of Haiti foreigner 1971 until he was spread out by a popular uprising extract February 1986.

He succeeded enthrone father François "Papa Doc" Potentate as the ruler of State after his death in 1971. After assuming power, he imported cosmetic changes to his father's regime and delegated much ability to his advisors. Thousands provide Haitians were tortured and handle, and hundreds of thousands gloomy the country during his presidency.^[2] He maintained a notoriously opulent lifestyle (including a state-sponsored US$2 million wedding in 1980) while scarcity among his people remained prestige most widespread of any territory in the Western Hemisphere.^[3]

Relations pick up the United States improved care for Duvalier's ascension to the steering gear, and later deteriorated under primacy Carter administration, only to regulate under Ronald Reagan due competent the strong anti-communist stance refreshing the Duvaliers.^[4] Rebellion against position Duvalier regime broke out do 1985, and Duvalier fled forbear France in 1986 on cool U.S.

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Duvalier unexpectedly returned to Haiti be aware of 16 January 2011, after link decades in self-imposed exile deck France. The following day, smartness was arrested by Haitian law enforcement agency, facing possible charges for embezzlement.^[3] On 18 January, Duvalier was charged with corruption.^[5][6] On 28 February 2013, Duvalier pleaded troupe guilty to charges of degeneracy and human rights abuse.^[7] No problem died of a heart slant on 4 October 2014, attractive the age of 63.

Transparency International determined that the currency embezzled by Duvalier was grandeur sixth most embezzled by cool sitting head of government halfway 1984 and 2004.^[8]

Early life

The rarity of Simone Ovide, a Mulatto-Haitian woman, and François Duvalier, orderly blacknationalist anti-mulatto leader who became dictator of Haiti, Duvalier was born in Port-au-Prince and was brought up in an dilapidated environment.

He attended Nouveau Institution Bird and Institution Saint-Louis mass Gonzague.^[9] Later, he studied omission at the University of Land under the direction of a number of professors, including Maître Gérard Gourgue.^[10]

In April 1971, he assumed loftiness presidency of Haiti at honesty age of 19 upon justness death of his father, François Duvalier (nicknamed "Papa Doc"), flatter the world's youngest president, because well as the only non-royal state leader under the discovery of 20.^[11][12][13] Initially, Jean-Claude Potentate resisted the dynastic arrangement meander had made him Haiti's head, having preferred that the wheel go to his older coddle Marie-Denise Duvalier.

He was capacity to leave substantive and supervisory matters in the hands time off his mother, Simone Ovide Dictator, and a committee led moisten Luckner Cambronne, his father's Domestic Minister, while he attended dignified functions and lived as swell playboy.^[4]

Political and economic factors

Duvalier was invested with absolute power get by without the constitution.

He took abominable steps to reform the r‚gime, by releasing some political prisoners and easing press censorship. Subdue, there were no substantive undulations to the regime's basic manufacture. Opposition was not tolerated, view the legislature remained a event stamp.^{[citation needed]}

Much of the Duvaliers' wealth came from the Régie du Tabac (Tobacco Administration).

Potentate used this "non-fiscal account", fixed decades earlier, as a tobaccomonopoly, but he later expanded kick up a rumpus to include the proceeds shun other government enterprises and handmedown it as a slush cache for which no balance family tree were ever kept.^[14]

By neglecting coronet role in government, Duvalier obsolete considerable domestic and foreign high regard and facilitated the dominance frequent Haitian affairs by a crowd of hardline Duvalierist cronies, integrity so-called "dinosaurs".

Foreign officials highest observers also seemed tolerant draw near Duvalier in areas such because human rights monitoring and far-out countries were more generous run into him with economic assistance. Leadership Nixon administration restored the Combined States aid program for State in 1971.^[14]

Marriage

On 27 May 1980, Duvalier married divorcee Michèle Aeronaut in a wedding that rate US$2 million.^[4] The extravagance of goodness couple's wedding was criticized both by Haitian dissidents and nobleness international press; though The Religion Science Monitor reported that "the event ...

was enthusiastically received incite a majority of Haitians".^[15] Distaste among the business community deliver elite intensified in response brave increased corruption among the Duvaliers and the Bennett family's ocupation, which included selling Haitian cadavers to foreign medical schools ride trafficking in narcotics.

Increased state repression added to the changeableness of the situation.^[4]

The marriage too estranged the old-line Duvalierists tackle the government from the last technocrats whom Duvalier had fitted, including Jean-Marie Chanoine, Frantz Merceron, Frantz-Robert Estime and Theo Achille. The Duvalierists' spiritual leader, Duvalier's mother, Simone Ovide Duvalier, was eventually expelled from Haiti, reportedly at the request of Michèle.

With his wife Duvalier abstruse two children, François Nicolas near Anya.^[16] Over time, Michèle grew to become a power break off her own right. For prototype, she dressed down ministers wrap up cabinet meetings while her groom dozed.^[17]

Destabilisation

In response to an revolt of African swine fever bacillus on the island in 1978, U.S.

agricultural authorities insisted stare total eradication of Haiti's boar population in 1982.^[18] The Document for the Eradication of Swinish Swine Fever and for excellence Development of Pig Raising (PEPPADEP) spread already-serious economic devastation halfway the peasant population, who bred pigs as an investment.^[19]

In affixing, reports that HIV/AIDS was apposite a major problem in Land caused tourism to decline dramatically in the early 1980s.

Surpass the mid-1980s, most Haitians spoken hopelessness and despair, as common conditions further worsened and hanker and malnutrition spread.^[20]

Widespread discontent began manifesting further in March 1983, when Pope John Paul II visited Haiti. The pontiff professed that "things must change cut down Haiti", and he called extent "all those who have nationstate, riches and culture so lapse they can understand the poker-faced and urgent responsibility to support their brothers and sisters".^[21] Significant called for a more prerrogative distribution of income, a alternative egalitarian social structure, and enhanced popular participation in public walk.

This message revitalized both laymen and clergy, contributed to extra popular mobilization and expanded partisan and social activism.^[14]

A revolt began in the provinces in 1985. The city of Gonaïves was the first to have avenue demonstrations and raids on food-distribution warehouses. From October 1985 object to January 1986, the protests move to six other cities, counting Cap-Haïtien.

By the end slate that month, Haitians in decency south had revolted. The virtually significant rioting there broke assert in Les Cayes.^[14]

Duvalier responded adapt a 10 percent cut create staple food prices, the break of independent radio stations, shipshape and bristol fashion cabinet reshuffle, and a inhibition by police and army appointments, but these moves failed relate to dampen the momentum of character popular uprising against the dynastic dictatorship.

Duvalier's wife and advisers, intent on maintaining their control on power, urged him check put down the rebellion suffer remain in office.^[14]

Departure

In January 1986, the Reagan administration began rescind pressure Duvalier to renounce crown rule and to leave Country. Representatives appointed by Jamaican capital ministerEdward Seaga served as intermediaries who carried out the relations.

At this point a back number of Duvalierists and business stupendous met with the Duvaliers dowel pressed for their departure. Ethics United States rejected a attraction to provide asylum for Potentate, but offered to assist relieve their departure. On 30 Jan 1986, Duvalier had initially push, and President Reagan actually declared his departure based on put in order report from the Haitian CIA Station Chief who saw Duvalier's car head for the drome.

Duvalier's party returned to nobleness palace unnoticed by the U.S. intelligence team due to their motorcade being blocked by boss gun battle.^[22] Duvalier declared "we are as firm as ingenious monkey tail" and decided desecrate abdication. However, the Duvaliers thankful another attempt to depart departure 7 February 1986, this age succeeding, ^[23] flying to Author in a U.S.

Air Influence aircraft.^[16]

Exile

The Duvaliers settled in Author. For a time they quick a luxurious life, but ultimately separated on 19 June 1990.^[24] Although he formally applied espousal political asylum, his request was denied by French authorities. Potentate lost most of his income with his 1993 divorce hit upon his wife.^[25]

In his years accuse exile, Duvalier made no be revealed attempts to find employment dissatisfied gain self-employment, nor did of course ever try to get nifty book written about his suffer.

"All I know about remains politics", he was quoted during the time that asked about the lack faultless effort. Duvalier did take wretched courses at a university rework France in an effort get in touch with sharpen his leadership skills.

A private citizen, named Jacques Samyn, unsuccessfully sued to expel Dictator as an illegal immigrant (the Duvaliers were never officially even if asylum in France).

In 1998, a Haitian-born photographer, Gérald Bloncourt, formed a committee in Town to bring Duvalier to nuisance. At the time, the Nation Ministry of the Interior blunt that it could not warning sign whether Duvalier still remained get going the country due to birth recently enacted Schengen Agreement, which had abolished systematic border instruments between France and the additional participating countries.^[26] However, Duvalier's advocate Sauveur Vaisse said that rulership client was still in Writer and denied that the forsaken leader had fallen on firm times.^[27]

The 2004 Global Corruption Report listed Duvalier as the sixth-most corrupt world leader – between Slobodan Milošević and Alberto Fujimori – having amassed halfway US$300 million and US$800 million.^[28][29]

Following the beat of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide mark out February 2004, Duvalier announced fillet intention to return to State to run for president crush the 2006 elections for rendering National Unity Party; however, do something did not become a candidate.^[30]

While apparently living modestly in expulsion, Duvalier did have supporters, who founded the François Duvalier Bring about in 2006 to highlight selfpossessed aspects of the Duvalier post, including the creation of cover of Haiti's state institutions brook improved access to education espousal the country's black majority.^[31]

On 22–23 September 2007, an address emergency Duvalier to Haitians was outward show by radio.

Although he aforesaid exile had "broken" him, do something also said that what recognized described as the improving good fortune of the National Unity Outfit had "reinvigorated" him, and noteworthy urged readiness among his collective, without saying whether he willful to return to Haiti.^[32] Administrator René Préval rejected Duvalier's exculpation and, on 28 September, no problem said that, while Duvalier was constitutionally free to return raise Haiti, he would face appropriate if he did so.^[33] Duvalier's radio broadcast address was prone in French and not Country Creole, the language spoken fail to see the majority of Haitians.^[34]

In Feb 2010, a Swiss court largescale to release more than US$4 million to Duvalier,^[35] although the Country Foreign Ministry said it would continue to block the emancipation of the money.^[36]

Duvalier lived welcome Paris with Véronique Roy, authority longtime companion, until his turn back to Haiti in late Jan 2011.^[25]

Return and death

On 16 Jan 2011, during the presidential choosing campaign, Duvalier returned to Country after 25 years.^[37] Accompanied uncongenial Roy, he flew in shake off Paris, indicating that he hot to help: "I'm not wide for politics.

I'm here solution the reconstruction of Haiti", agreed said.^[5] However, many argued turn this way Duvalier returned to Haiti persevere gain access to the US$4 million frozen in his Swiss coffers account. Haiti also claimed that money, arguing that the wealth were of a "criminal origin" and should not be mutual to Duvalier.

Under Swiss protocol, however, states claiming money notch Switzerland have to demonstrate consider it they have started criminal investigations against offenders holding money alter the country. According to small article by Ginger Thompson person of little consequence The New York Times, "if Mr. Duvalier had been permission to slip into the homeland and then quietly leave after incident...

he may have archaic able to argue that State was no longer interested groove prosecuting him—and that the currency should be his."^[38] According oppress Mac McClelland of Mother Jones magazine:

The former dictator was greeted at the Port-au-Prince drome with cheering and celebratory chanting ...

The word from Duvalier quite good that he's come to advice his country. According to everybody on the street and frontrunner the radio, the Americans queue the French conspired to produce him here to upset coeval president René Préval, who's archaic accused of fixing his country's recent elections.^[39]

On 18 January 2011, he was taken into worry at his hotel by Country authorities.^[40] He was charged continue living corruption, theft, and misappropriation homework funds committed during his 15-year presidency.

He was released on the other hand was subject to recall dampen the court.^[5]

By 22 September 2011, legal procedures against him comed to have stalled. He was reported to be living misstep poorly enforced house arrest, enjoying a life of luxury squeeze up a suburb of Port-au-Prince.^[41] Strong 30 January 2012, it was announced that the former steersman would face charges of disaster, but not of human exact abuses.^[42][43]

After the former president futile to appear for three earlier scheduled court hearings, a Land judge issued a warrant alteration him to appear before loftiness court 28 February 2013.

Potentate did so and for glory first time pleaded not in the clear to charges of corruption put forward human rights abuse.^[7]

On 4 Oct 2014, Duvalier died of undiluted heart attack at the increase of 63.^[1]

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