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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 06, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Miami Herald
  October 4, 2014
  
  

  By Jim Wyss and Jacqueline Charles
  jcharles@miamiherald.com

  During Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s brutal 15-year rule, political leaders, journalists and scores of others were detained, tortured and sometimes killed.
• Location : Cap-Haitien, Nord Department, Haiti
• Website : http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article2510234.html

Overview

• CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti - When Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier made a surprising return to Haiti in 2011 after a quarter-century in exile, some hoped the aging dictator would finally have to answer for the abuses of his regime.
  
  Instead, as one human rights activist said after news of Duvalier’s death on Saturday, he “cheated justice.”
  
  Duvalier died of a heart attack Saturday at his home in the Port-au-Prince mountaintop suburb of Thomassin, according to friends. He was 63.
  
  He had just recently been discharged from a hospital after being bitten on the leg by a tarantula. A nurse at Canapé Vert Hospital said Duvalier checked in on Sept. 22 and checked out Sept. 25. He was also a diabetic, according to a friend, and was hospitalized several times since his return.
  
  His death ends a chapter in Haiti’s tumultuous history, the last of a brutal family political dynasty that began when his father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, who took power in 1957 and passed it to his 19-year-old son upon his death. The father died at age 64, also of a heart attack.
  
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