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Laddar... The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalierav Amy Wilentz
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  MessiahEpiscopal | Apr 4, 2011 |   Soms bijna profetische inslag: Aristide is de hoofdfiguur, zijn verhaal valt gelijk met dat van Haiti zelf, hij is de sleutel om het land te kunnen begrijpen. Ook opvallend: de zeer kritische inslag tegenover het Ameri¬kaanse beleid. (  ) bookomaniac | Jul 29, 2010 |  ) thesmellofbooks | Feb 9, 2009 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Through a series of personal journeys, interwoven with scenes from the country's past, this documents Amy Wilentz's arrival in Haiti in 1986, days before the ousting of Haiti's President for Life, Jean-Claude Duvalier and shows how the hope of change turned to disappointment when liberation led to chaos and stagnation. In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, Wilentz leads us through the streets, bustling by day and by night filled with gunfire and burning tyres. She explores the countryside where young soldiers control road-blocks and farmers struggle to survive and where belief in voodoo the peasants' religion is as strong as ever. Wilentz offers portrtais of today's Haitians - Father Aristide the rebel priest and spiritual force behind the opposition, the various military-backed leaders, the wild kids who roam the streets, the State Department men, the Christian missionaries and the international press corps who jet in for each coup. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)972.9407History and Geography North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda West Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; Caribbean Haiti HaitiKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg: (3.75)
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Are you mystified by Haiti's miserable poverty and disease, its long history of abusive dictators and endless number of International NGO's? Do you wonder why the neighboring Dominican Republic is so green and Haiti so bare? Journalist-writer, Amy Wilentz, moved to Haiti in 1986 as Duvalier was ousted from his 25 year control of the country. She fully expected Haiti to make drastic changes for the better and wanted to give witness to the process. Instead, she learned its sad history, met its colorful people and wrote a superbly researched account of her sojourn.
The close intertwining of politics, disease, famine, voodoo and horrendous human rights abuses that she documented are still the cause of untold misery for our Haitian brothers and sisters. As you read, you will find answers to your questions, encounter Tonton Macoutes, dictators, voodoo priests, historical heroes and villains and learn over two hundred years of Haitian history.
(Reviewed by GL.)