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A Land Without Law

2024/10/4
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Marie Genard recounts her childhood in Haiti under the Duvalier dictatorship, marked by strict rules and political upheaval. Following the regime's collapse, her father's involvement with the Lavalas movement led to their relocation and subsequent need to flee the country after a coup.
  • Marie's father, a Lavalas supporter, went into hiding after the coup against President Aristide.
  • The Duvalier regime was marked by violence and political oppression.
  • Haiti's first free democratic election resulted in the presidency of Jean Bertrand Aristide.

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Before Guantánamo Bay became the prison we know today, Marie Genard spent more than a year of her life there. She was 14.

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