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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Baby Doc' dead: Ousted Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier dies of heart attack
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ousted-haitian-dictator-jean-claude-duvalier-dies-article-1.1963355<snip>
Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died Saturday of a heart attack, his attorney said.
Reynold George said the ex-leader died at his home. He was 63.
Duvalier, looking somewhat frail, made a surprise return to Haiti in 2011, allowing victims of his regime to pursue legal claims against him and prompting some old allies to rally around him. Neither side gained much support, and the once-feared dictator known as "Baby Doc" spent his late years in relative obscurity in the leafy hills above the Haitian capital.
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Good riddance you greedy corrupt scumbag.
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'Baby Doc' dead: Ousted Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier dies of heart attack (Original Post)
malaise
Oct 2014
OP
spanone
(135,830 posts)1. k&r...
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)2. Oh no! This is a terrible day for
for lovers of fascistic murdering scumbags.
Warpy
(111,255 posts)3. And thousands of Haitians are saying in unison
"Gee, I never knew he had one"
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. Good riddance to a true shitheel.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)5. Good. nt
Octafish
(55,745 posts)6. Well, he was our man in Port-au-Prince.
I particularly liked how, with a few exceptions, administration after administration had him do our bidding on behalf of the One-percent of Haitians who own 99-percent of Haiti. Little did I know when Jean Bertrand Aristide told me that the United States would quickly follow the same fascist path.
malaise
(268,976 posts)7. And his daddy before him
The French liked them too
n2doc
(47,953 posts)8. Too bad they can't dump his body in a landfill
It is all he deserved.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)17. I have a better idea
Run him through a meat grinder, take the result about 40 miles offshore and feed it to the sharks.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)9. Just don't take Cheney's space in Hell, Doc.
There's plenty of room, if you all squeeze together.
malaise
(268,976 posts)11. LOL
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)10. K&R
malaise
(268,976 posts)12. Good to see you
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)13. Hey, malaise. Thanks!
malaise
(268,976 posts)14. Did you know that his lavish wedding
cost $US3million - in that poor ass country!
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)15. I hate that he died and no one got justice.
Justice matters.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)16. Give my regards to Hitler!