By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2025
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Obituary: Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”) Duvalier
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on October 6, 2014
Jean-Claude Duvalier in 2011
It might have come as a shock to some that a dictator who took power in 1971 and was deposed in 1986 was even still alive, but such is the case with Jean-Claude Duvalier, who died on Saturday. The fact that Duvalier took power in Haiti at the age of 19 was only the least of the weirdness of the dynasty established by his father, Francois, who had been a medical doctor and fashioned himself “Papa Doc” in official propaganda (an honorific passed to Jean-Claude in the succession, hence “Baby Doc”). Continue reading
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