Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first anniversary of the Duvaliers' departure, Haitians stayed off the streets, a pointed gesture of frustration that contrasted starkly with the exuberant dancing of a year ago. Today, the mood is a potentially explosive mix of bitterness, disappointment and rage. "It is worse now because we were expecting so much," says Sylvester Severe, 31, a farmer. "Now we have even less." Indeed, almost half of Haiti's 3 million-strong labor force remains unemployed. Most Haitians still earn around $380 a year, and more than eight out of ten people remain illiterate. In short, Haiti shows no sign of shaking...
...lives quietly now with her husband, their two small children and assorted relatives in a large villa up the hill from Cannes. She still places phone orders with the most expensive shops in Paris, but life is more idle than idyllic for Michele Duvalier and exiled Haitian Dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. For starters, the couple is forbidden to leave the area by the French government, which has also frozen $124 million in cash and property pending litigation of a suit by the Haitian government. And since fleeing Haiti last February, they have been shunned by locals, attacked...
Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo could kick up his boots like a pro. During a 1951 peace meeting on the Haitian border, El Jefe grabbed the daughter of one of his officers and, as a ceremonial band bore down on a merengue beat, danced away the next hour. His countrymen could also call the tune to advantage, however. After Trujillo's 1961 assassination, Dominicans danced for months to The Death of the Goat, an irreverent merengue written to celebrate the general's violent removal...
Merengue madness is not shared throughout the Caribbean. Just as there are shadings in style -- Haitian merengue, for example, has a heavier African inflection -- there are differences among people whose musical tastes can be as vehement as their politics. "The trouble with Dominicans is they don't know how to dance," grumps a Puerto Rican music-business entrepreneur in New York City. But the numbers are against...
...report prepared by Altman included the additional allegation that 12 Haitian cab drivers had been unnecessarily arrested in a humiliating and conspicuous fashion...