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Real Dictators
It was described as providing a portrait of a Haitian tyrant, and its author commented on a particularly comedic coup attempt against the dictator Papa Doc Duvalier, involving only eight participants.
Duvalier was under threat almost from the start.
— Episode: Papa Doc Part 2: Haiti’s Dictator vs JFK
Episode: Papa Doc Part 2: Haiti’s Dictator vs JFK
It was described as providing a portrait of a Haitian tyrant, and its author commented on a particularly comedic coup attempt against the dictator Papa Doc Duvalier, involving only eight participants.
Duvalier was under threat almost from the start.
Fortunately for him, most of the attempts, coup attempts if you like, were comic opera affairs.
And this one was particularly so because there were only eight of them involved.
There are some close to Duvalier who claim that after that illness, he became a different person.
It was almost as if he'd become something else, that he'd been transformed, if you like, by the combination of his physical frailty and his increasing realisation that he needed to be something other than a human being to survive as president of Haiti.