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Papa Doc Part 2: Haiti’s Dictator vs JFK

2020/9/2
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Papa Doc Duvalier became extremely paranoid after the attempted coup, leading him to form his own private militia, the Tonton Macoute, to secure his power.

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Haitian dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier crushes an attempted coup without mercy. Spooked by this near miss, Duvalier forms his own private militia called the Tonton Macoute. They take their name from a terrifying bogeyman of Haitian mythology. As the horrors of the regime become impossible to ignore, President Kennedy decides to lay down a marker.

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