Haiti’s Francois Duvalier Dictatorship (1971)

The story of Haiti is one of great promise strangled over and over again by foriegn control. Pricipally France and the US who for centuries have contolled and drained the island. The 20th century has seen a succession of governments both elected or directly installed by American troops. It was one of the countries cited by former Marine Commandant and two time CMH winner Smedley Butler in his classic anti war book “War Is A Racket“. François “Papa Doc“ Duvalier was elected president in 1957 as a populist an