Duvalier in a sentence

Duvalier helped form a Junkanoo group who were the first to rush the streets with uniformed costumes.

Haitian politicians have relied on armed gangs to enforce their rule since at least 1959 when the infamous dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier formed a paramilitary militia known as the Tonton Macoute – named after a mythological boogeyman.

He was born into a low to middle-class family just months after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier’s regime and was the eldest of three children.

Content to leave administrative matters in the hands of his mother, Simone Ovid Duvalier, while living as a playboy, Jean-Claude enriched himself through a series of fraudulent schemes.

Duvalier is said to have engaged actively in the behind-the-scenes intrigue that helped him to emerge as the presidential candidate that the military favored.

Following John Paul II's pilgrimage, the Haitian opposition to Duvalier frequently reproduced and quoted the pope's message.

He was in Haiti and Duvalier was out.

However, Duvalier appealed to the black middle class of which he was a member by introducing public works into middle-class neighborhoods that previously had been unable to have paved roads, running water, or modern sewage systems.

In 1964, Duvalier proclaimed himself "President for Life".

In defense of the government's position, Giuliani testified that "political repression, at least in general, does not exist" under President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier 's regime.

Known as "Papa Doc" and initially popular, Duvalier was President until his death in 1971.

Papa Doc's son Jean-Claude Duvalier – also known as "Baby Doc" – led the country from 1971 until his ouster in 1986, when protests led him to seek exile in France.

Since the demise of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, international economists have urged Haiti to reform and modernize its economy.

The events of May 1946 made an impression upon the deposed minister of labor, François Duvalier.

The Kennedy administration suspended aid in 1961, after allegations that Duvalier had pocketed aid money and intended to use a Marine Corps mission to strengthen the Macoutes.

The military went on to guide the campaign and the elections in a way that gave Duvalier every possible advantage.

Under Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti's economic and political condition continued to decline, although some of the more fearsome elements of his father's regime were abolished.

When elections were finally organized, this time under terms of universal suffrage (both men and women now had the vote), Duvalier, a black, painted himself as the legitimate heir to Estimé.

When his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier succeeded him as President for Life, tourism returned in the 1970s.