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In July 1958, three exiled Haitian army officers and five American mercenaries landed in Haiti and tried to overthrow Duvalier; all were killed. [21] Although the army and its leaders had quashed the coup attempt, the incident deepened Duvalier's distrust of the army, an important Haitian institution over which he did not have firm control.
Jean-Claude Duvalier (French: [ʒɑ̃klod dyvalje]; 3 July 1951 – 4 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (French: Bébé Doc, Haitian Creole: Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian dictator who inherited the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986.
According to American court filings related to the assassination, former Drug Enforcement Administration informant and Haitian-American Joseph Vincent, who had traveled to Haiti in 2021 to support Sanon, pretended to be an employee of United States Department of State during the meetings, and provided material support and services to the plan ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A judge in Haiti responsible for investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister ...
Jovenel Moïse (French pronunciation: [ʒɔv(ə)nɛl mɔiz]; Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ʒovɛnɛl mɔiz]; 26 June 1968 – 7 July 2021) was a Haitian politician and entrepreneur who served as the 43rd president of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021.
In the 2016 video game Mafia III, the New Bordeaux Haitian Mob is composed mainly of refugees who fled Haiti to escape from persecution by the Tonton Macoute. In the television series The Thick of It, the character Malcolm Tucker jokes in response to why he enters a room without knocking that it is due to his "time with the Haitian death squads".
President of Haiti: July 27, 1915: Port-au-Prince Haiti: Numerous assailants Karl von Stürgkh: Minister-President of Cisleithania: October 21, 1916: Vienna Austria-Hungary: Friedrich Adler: Sidónio Pais: President of Portugal: December 14, 1918: Lisbon Portugal: José Júlio da Costa: Habibullah Khan: Emir of Afghanistan: February 20, 1919 ...
Jean-Claude Exulien, a pioneer in Miami’s Haitian community, was fondly known as Mèt Zin — Creole for “The Newsman.” Exulien, who died on Jan. 4 in Miami at 85 from liver cancer ...