Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voodoo may be lunacy, the religion may be primitive, and the market place unsanitary. But one can not help wondering if the Haitian people aren't able to relate to each other in a way that most Americans have forgotten...
...easy for an American to be-little the way of life of the Haitian peasantry, to despair the poverty, and to dismiss the country as a fascist dictatorship. But most Haitians would dismiss the American dream with equal ease and with possibly more justification. For what, after all, is progress, when Americans flounder in their affluence and persist in the path of war, racism, and riot...
...That the Haitian peasants can be proud of their life comes as a first surprise to an American. A second surprise is that they are loyal to Papa...
...Haitian loyalty to Duvalier goes beyond fear. Papa Doc has been in power for ten and a half years, which is a major accomplishment in a land with a history of political upheaval and violence. That Duvalier does nothing for them troubles the people, but they have no tradition of democracy or people-oriented government, and by the standards of the past, Papa Doc is an honorable man. He has survived, he has brought a semblance of stability to the country, and in the minds of the people he has identified himself with Haiti by declaring himself with Haiti...
...there is to be progress in Haiti, it will have to come through private initiative; for the Haitian government has no interest in change, and Washington, although genuinely eager to help, has been unable to deal with the methods of development...