Duvalier lives comfortably in Haiti-Added COMMETNARY By Haitian-Truth

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 10 (UPI.com) — Former President-for-Life Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier appears to be living the good life in Haiti after a 25-year-exile.

While a judge is investigating allegations of crimes committed during his 15-year rule, former Duvalier supporters are among the close advisers of President-elect Michel Martelly, The Miami Herald reported Monday. Martelly, formerly a popular singer, has suggested amnesty for Duvalier as well as Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the priest-turned-president who was exiled twice.

Duvalier, 59, who returned to Haiti about four months ago as the poverty-mired Caribbean island nation struggles to recover from a massive 2010 earthquake, shrugs off ties to Martelly.

“I did not send them and they are not there as Duvalieriests,” he said.

The former president is under house arrest, albeit in a comfortable borrowed house in the hills above Port-au-Prince. He has been spotted in fashionable restaurants, and Dr. Nichole Magloire, who spent time in prison under Duvalier, said she left quickly in anger when she saw him at a Petionville restaurant drinking wine, listening to jazz and shaking hands with other diners.

“The phone is ringing all of the time and I’m receiving a lot of visitors,” Duvalier told the Herald, describing a typical day in the life of Haiti’s former president-for-life.

Duvalier, 59, became president at the age of 19 when his father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, died. He was forced out amidst a popular revolt and under pressure from the United States.

The Swiss government announced plans last week to transfer $6.7 million in frozen assets to the government of Haiti. Duvalier is expected to fight that, the Herald said.

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

Why does everyone take cheap shots at Duvalier?

This article ends by suggesting Duvalier will fight release of the money.

This is not, and has never been the case. Immediately after the January, 2010 quake he asked for the money to be released to some accountable group – for use by the Haitian people.

He did not consider Preval’s government an accountable group. After all, Preval has stolen $198,000,000 from Petro Caraibe funds, a fact accepted by the Haitian people. Yet no one attacks Preval.

And Aristide, why aren’t there a few shots at him for the $1.5 billion he has accumulated, one way or another.

Duvalier has been blamed for many things he didn’t do.

Aristide and Preval are never blamed for things they have done, and continue to do.

Is this a message to the lovers of DEMOCRACY??

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1 thought on “Duvalier lives comfortably in Haiti-Added COMMETNARY By Haitian-Truth

  1. Agreed. Arrest Preval. Arrest Aristide They are the real criminals.

    Everything has been worse since 1986

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