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Baby Doc is back in town
Tan, rested, ready...Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, a once feared and reviled dictator who was tossed in a popular uprising nearly 25 years ago, has made a stunning return to Haiti, raising concerns he could screw up efforts to solve the nation's interminable political crisis, a cholera plague and the dilatory reconstruction from last year's devastating earthquake. Baby Doc's arrival at the airport Sunday was as mysterious as it was goofy. He greeted a crowd of several hundred cheering knuckle artists and pistoleros but did not say why he chose this tumultuous period to suddenly pop up from his exile in La Belle France -- or what he intended to do while back in Haiti. My guess would be that he intends to hand out some bucks and get the Ton Tons back to work keeping the anarchy level high enough to generate demands for "stability." "I'm not here for politics," Duvalier told Radio Caraibes. "I'm here for the reconstruction of Haiti." Then his lips fell off. His longtime concubine, Veronique Roy, told news hounds at one point that he planned to stay three days. He planned to talk to newsies on Monday. President Rene Preval -- who told news hounds in 2007 that Duvalier could return to Haiti but would face justice for the deaths of thousands of people and the theft of millions of dollars -- made no public comment on the former dictator's re-emergence. But Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive shrugged it off. Meaning they're not going to do anything. Posted by: tu3031 2011-01-17 |
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