Word: haitianization
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...dictator proved a flop. He spent $25 million erecting a gigantic "International Fair for Peace and Progress," opened the doors for business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
...Maryland-sized republic, just three air hours from Miami, the weekend of turmoil only topped off a chaotic political record. In the 153 years since independence, Haiti has had two emperors, one king and 30 Presidents, only two of whom peacefully turned the office over to their successors. Haitian rulers have been fed arsenic, dynamited, driven to suicide, torn to pieces...
Marine Interlude. The 1915-34 occupation by the U.S. Marines reversed the trend, gave Haiti hospitals, telephones and political peace. The paradoxically gentle side of the Haitian nature emerged. From the Marine departure to President Paul Magloire's ouster last year, Haiti had only four Presidents, a modern record. But as the occupation memory faded, the technical services and the civic sense declined, and chaos reclaimed the land. Seven regimes have ruled in the past six months...
...stood ready last week to fly to Port-au-Prince. But without the re-establishment of public order, no amount of aid could go very far. Sending the Marines was out of the question in the era of the Good Neighbor, but the U.S. Embassy might call in the Haitian politicians and hammer the desk, then sweeten the harsh words with promises of large-scale aid if they would unite patriotically to save their country...
Campaigning for the presidency, Candidate Louis Déjoie, a rich planter, has been advertising himself as "a production engineer, not a politician." To the humble Haitian voters, Déjoie may be a haughty aristocrat, but his promises have made him a leading candidate. Last week, abundantly proving that he is not a politician, Déjoie threw away his lead...