A 40 YEARS OF THE DEATH OF PAPA DOC
The April 21, 1971 passed the Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier. Known by the nickname Papa Doc, was a doctor and politician who ruled Haiti from 1957 until his death. His power was based on the militia of the National Security Volunteers (VSN), known as the Tonton Macoute . At his death he was succeeded by his son Jean-Claude Duvalier, Baby Doc , who ruled until overthrown in 1986. Confessions sections of terror Angel, note the Haitian poet René Depestre published in the magazine Panorama, No. 209 of April 27, 1971.
"The dark life president of Haiti, Francois Duvalier, died in his island on the night of April 21, at 64 years. By the weekend, as amended International Panorama piled coverage that the various agencies and news services offered on the episode. Was elected the note presented Prensa Latina, the rights acquired Panorama for Argentina. In it the poet Rene Depestre, who was a friend and victim of Duvalier recounts his experience with the dangerous dictator, whose hallucinatory statements recorded. The opinions of Depestre, a product of Marxist political activism is in exile in Cuba, were kept as they were expressed in the original.
François Duvalier was known in his country under various names: Lucifer in the Caribbean, the spiritual leader of the Nation, First Rugged, Cimarron Vertical, Doctrinal Illustrious, the Honorable Learned and sociologist. But it is known in the world by the name Papa Doc terse . Homo
Papadocus This has not fallen in any cosmogony barbaric past. It was our contemporary in the West Indies. Recently appointed his successor in the person of a fat tonton macoute 20 years: his own son, Jean Claude Duvalier. Duvalier
I have known for more than a quarter century in Port Au Prince, in the district of Bas-Peu-de-Chose, where we were neighbors. At that time Papa Doc were not disclosed even after Duvalier's personality. Doc was, quite simply, without the Pope that the mythology of power ruthlessly bloodthirsty should add to your marital status. Doc Duvalier was then a quiet doctor who was dedicated to their profession in the wrong services American Health Mission.
Each day, after leaving office, he was seen at sunset, sitting in the cool on the veranda of his modest wooden house in the small street Roy. She wore a cotton pajamas and austere leather shoes country. Generally open a book or newspaper. It was at first friendly and simple, and very popular in our neighborhood. I still remember him, caring for my 40 grade fever when I had a crisis of malaria. Proffered arm, confident, for intravenous injections. He was attentive and friendly, no criminal reflection was visible even behind the thick glass of his horn-rimmed glasses. Readily offered their services to los pobres, sin exigirles honorarios por sus visitas. Se decía en la ciudad que era el médico que conocía mejor los terribles problemas sanitarios del país.
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¿Qué es la papadocracia?
Es una estructura política que representa para una sociedad subdesarrollada lo que el nacionalsocialismo significó para una sociedad industrial avanzada en plena crisis capitalista. El concepto de negritude siguió en la mente loca de Duvalier la misma trayectoria aberrante que el socialismo en el cerebro demente de Hitler. La misma inversión criminal de valores se encuentra presente en el nazismo (como mitología de una etapa del desarrollo). Nazism and the papadocracia are absolute oppression techniques that have emerged in the two pathological pole of global capitalism. The first created a body of Waffen SS to terrorize Germany and Europe, the second organized a corps of Tontons Macoutes to terrorize the poor Haitian homes. Duvalier was the 'Black Power' a totalitarian mythology that acts as a confusing process zombification 5 million blacks. Zombification Papadocracia and intense are the same phenomenon of loss of identity and 'indigenization' without braking the old colonial violence. "
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