Papa Doc--Haiti and its dictator

Bernard Diederich

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This engaging story of Nicaragua's notorious tyrant is more than a biography. Solidly written for a general as well as scholarly audience, it paints a portrait of the man against a backdrop of Nicaragua's political structure, social circumstance, and economic background, encompassing its relations with other Central American countries and the ramifications of the civil war of 1978-79.

Somoza And the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America by Bernard Diederich (1981-09-29)

Literature & Fiction

E.P.Dutton

This edition is the revised by the author and reedited edition of a self-published book with the same title but different subtitle.(The year that changed our word) Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was 1959, from which this book takes its title. 1959 was indeed an historic year during which, among other historic events, Fidel Castro's guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. This intriguing book, drawn from the pages of the author's English-language weekly newspaper, the Haiti Sun, and from his notebooks, provides a journalist's firsthand look at Papa Doc's reaction--at first easing, then tightening even more brutally his tyrannical rule. Diederich then traces the ensuing impacts on Haiti's relations with the U.S., other Caribbean nations, the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and the international community. 1959 is an historically compelling book which traces a pivotal year that began with Fidel Castro's victory in Cuba, triggering reverberations that changed the Caribbean. Bernard Diederich was also an eyewitness to the end of the guerrilla war and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. He secured the first interviews with Comandante Camilo Cienfuegoes and with Raul Castro after Cuban revolutionaries entered Havana, and he attended Fidel Castro's first press conference.

1959: The Year That Inflamed the Caribbean

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Markus Wiener Publishers

FORT DIMANCHE a représenté sous la dictature des Duvalier, dans les salines au nord de la capitale, la pire et la plus effroyable destination pour les Haïtiens. L on n osait dire à voix haute son nom, qui évoquait d inconcevables souffrances impitoyablement infligées à un nombre incalculable de victimes. Beaucoup d entre elles mouraient dans des conditions atroces, laissées à pourrir de maladies non soignées dans les cellules exiguës, surpeuplées, putrides de cet ancien fort. Les détenus devaient souvent éprouver le désir d en finir, d être tirés de là pour être exécutés. La prison de non-retour avait été conçue par Papa Doc Duvalier avec une cruauté inhumaine, dans le but d entretenir la plus grande peur dans la population.

FORT DIMANCHE: La machine d'extermination (French Edition)

CIDIHCA - Co-édition Educa Vision Inc.

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