Soledad O’Brien interviews ex-Haitian dictator ‘Baby Doc’-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Haiti is still struggling to recover from the effects of its catastrophic 2010 earthquake, but it’s also grappling with the presence of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, a former dictator who returned from exile in 2011.

Special Correspondent Soledad O’Brien caught up with the elusive former president, who faces corruption charges and is trying to access about $6 million frozen in a Swiss bank account.

O’Brien also spoke with Robert Duval, who was a political prisoner during Duvalier’s rule.

Learn more about both men in this slideshow and make sure to tune in Wednesday evening for O’Brien’s first report for America Tonight. Also, check out more pictures from O’Brien’s latest reporting trip to Haiti.


Meet Haiti’s former dictator and a former political prisoner

“I counted 20 of them -- died in this cell while I was there – in my hands,” Robert Duval said of his 8 months here in Haiti's notorious Fort Dimanche prison.
“I counted 20 of them — died in this cell while I was there – in my hands,” Robert Duval said of his eight months in Haiti’s notorious Fort Dimanche prison during the reign of dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. In a 13-foot by 14-foot cell, “you got another 20 to 30 to 40 people, depending how many people died that week.” Duval said he wasn’t particularly politically active, saying he was jailed after he was questioned by authorities and mentioned that he had gone to college in Canada.
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Check the letter to Ira Kurzban regarding the legendary $6,200,000. It was not Duvalier’s. It was the remainder of a foundation run by his mother. For a number of years, Duvalier has endeavoured to turn this money over to some group that would use it in the best interests of the Haitian people. He was against releasing it to Preval since he believed – with some reason – that it would be stolen.

Ed Marger, acting for Duvalier, wrote a letter to Ira Kurzban asking for his agreement to disburse the funds. Kurzban never replied to the attached letter.

I am always amazed to see Bobby Duval making these stupid statements. He was arrested after making an attempt on the President’s life. He was held in the National Penetentiary, close to his father’s business. Each day, members of his family carried food to him in jail.

After his release, Bobby Duval was photographed with Jean Claude Duvalier and Michele B. Duvalier, which must have been after their wedding in 1980.

Bobby Duval is a liar.

Duvalier can walk the streets because the Haitian people like him.

Aristide must remained hiding in his house with a lot of armed guards.

There must be a lesson here.

Duvalier left Haiti with something like $23,000,000.

On the other hand, Jean-Bertrand Aristide has $1,500,000,000

Preval has something like $500,000,000.

There is another story here, for anyone seeking the truth.

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3 thoughts on “Soledad O’Brien interviews ex-Haitian dictator ‘Baby Doc’-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

  1. Now the issue is who stole how much of the country’s money, so MM is right to have his own. Annexation of the national bank.with friends like you?

  2. *Why do we worry about the past huh? Let is be active in the present. Let us jail the unpatriotic parliament members. Why not? Haiti would have an immediate recovery. we would not recover by 2030 we would recover now. these unpatriotic monsters are the ones killing our country. they block every effort that we make to fix the country. I truly believe Haiti should be unicameral and not bicameral like papa doc Duvalier had it. Why pay so much money to so many morons? There is a reason why president Petion’s government had problems. he soon realize you should not dedicated so much power to the hands of fools. Like Parliament. Simon Bolivar had the same issues. This is the weakness of democracy: parliament when unpatriotic can be a cancer to progress.

  3. Duval is a proven liar. His lies are being orchestrated by enemies of Baby Doc.
    It’s happened time after time. Left wing/socialists blaming right wing governments for atrocities, many of which were actually done by them. In order to gain power. Example; 1994 massacre blamed on Cedras/FRAPH. They had nothing to gain and everything to lose by such an act. But Aristide had everything to gain. He didn’t care about sacrificing some of his supporters to gain power. What else is new!

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