Top secrets sur jean-claude duvalier biography
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Biography & facts.
Duvalier, Jean-Claude (1951–)
Jean-Claude Duvalier (b. 3 July 1951), president of Haiti (1971–1986). An unsuccessful law student and playboy, Duvalier became "president for life" upon the death of his father, François Duvalier, but was only the titular head for the first few years, since decisions were made by a council of state appointed by his father before he died.
This arrangement assured the continuation of Duvalierisme.
Top secrets sur jean-claude duvalier biography
The council members included his mother and his father's main advisers; Luckner Cambronne was the power behind the throne and also headed the Leopards, a counterinsurgency force created with U.S. aid in 1971. When Jean-Claude dismissed and exiled Cambronne in 1972, it marked the president's emerging control and influence.
Duvalier stated that his goal was to effect an "economic revolution" (he had little interest in négritude or noirisme), which he pursued by making some cosmetic and some real changes in reducing political repression.
These changes p