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.
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?
*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.
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!