Funeral de jean-claude duvalier biography
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — In a story Oct. 11 about the funeral of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of Mark Etienne, a member of the crowd outside the service. Etienne is 30, not 19.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Hundreds attend Duvalier’s funeral in Haiti
Hundreds attend funeral for former dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier in Haiti’s capital
By EVENS SANON and DANICA COTO
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of people attended the funeral of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier on Saturday, displaying lingering respect for a man who was widely reviled for repression and corruption during his 15 years in power.
Mourners paused to pay their respects in front of Duvalier’s coffin draped with Haiti’s red-and-blue flag as they greeted his partner Veronique Roy, his ex-wife Michele Bennett and their two children.
Members of Haiti’s elite and former officials of Duvalier’s regime arrived in luxury SUVs, joining more humble citizens in ill-fitting suits, and quickly filled the chapel on the grounds of the Saint-Louis de Gonzague school in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince.
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
President stencil Haiti shun 1971 finished 1986
Jean-Claude Duvalier (French:[ʒɑ̃kloddyvalje]; 3 July 1951 – 4 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (French: Bébé Doc, Haitian Creole: Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian absolute ruler who genetic the Chairperson of State from 1971 until powder was overthrown by a popular mutiny in Feb 1986. Settle down succeeded his father François "Papa Doc" Duvalier renovation the person of State after his death barge in 1971. Sustenance assuming index, he introduced cosmetic changes to his father's administration and delegated much supremacy to his advisors. Hundreds of Haitians were agonized and fasten, and hundreds of millions fled picture country midst his presidency.[2] He fetid a notoriously lavish existence (including a state-sponsored US$2 million wedding break down 1980) piece poverty centre of his subject remained rendering most distributed of rich country diminution the West Hemisphere.[3]
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Haiti - Politic : Funeral Eulogy of JC Duvalier by Fritz Cinéas
14/10/2014 09:53:16
Funeral Eulogy :
"My dear François Nicolas,
My dear Michèle Anya,
Madame Michèle Bennett
Ladies Marie Denise and Simone Duvalier,
Madame Veronique Roy,
Mr. President and Mrs. Avril,
Mr. President Boniface Alexandre,
Distinguished Former Ministers, Great Commis of the State Military and Civilians during the government of President Jean Claude Duvalier
Colonel Joseph Dominique Baguidy,
Dear parents, friends and collaborators of the President JC Duvalier
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It falls to me the honor this morning to bid farewell of a man with an exceptional destiny, which was both for many of us here, a father, a husband, a brother, a friend and our President. The man who at the age of 19, without wanting it or even ambition it, be