Anthem:La Dessalinienne(French) The Dessalines Song
Capital
Port-au-Prince
Common languages
French, Haitian Creole
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Vodou
Government
Unitary one-party presidential republic under an autocratic hereditary dictatorship
President
• 1957–1971
François Duvalier
• 1971–1986
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Legislature
Parliament
• Unicameral since 1961
Legislative Chamber
Historical era
Cold War
• Established
22 October 1957
• Disestablished
7 February 1986
Currency
Haitian gourde
ISO 3166 code
HT
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Second Haitian Republic
Third Haitian Republic
MINUSTAH
The Duvalier dynasty (French: Dynastie des Duvalier, Haitian Creole: Dinasti Duvalier) was an autocratic hereditary dictatorship in Haiti that lasted almost 29 years, from 1957 until 1986, spanning the rule of the father-and-son duo François and Jean-Claude Duvalier.[2][3][4][5]
^Republic of Haiti, Constitution of Haiti, 1964 (as amended, 1971), article 193, third paragraph: "The motto is: Liberté, égalité, fraternité"." General Secretariat, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., 1974.
^Collier, Michael W. (2005). Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin: Constructing a Theory to Combat Corruption. Routledge. p. 86. ISBN 0415973287. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
^Press, ed. (1988). Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1988. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 578. ISBN 0792312643. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
^Press, ed. (1988). "Caribbean Affairs, Volume 1". Trinidad Express Newspapers. p. 55. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
^Tullock, Gordon (1987). Autocracy. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 9024733987. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
The Duvalierdynasty (French: Dynastie des Duvalier, Haitian Creole: Dinasti Duvalier) was an autocratic hereditary dictatorship in Haiti that lasted...
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1934. Succeeded his father as President for Life. Deposed in the Anti-Duvalier protest movement. Deposed in the June 1988 coup d'état. Deposed in the...
dictators such as François Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude Duvalier has markedly affected the nation. Since the end of the Duvalier era Haiti has been transitioning...
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elements of it to guide his brutal rule of the country during the Duvalierdynasty. The first document of Haitian literature is the collective text Acte...
president François Duvalier, used to violently suppress dissidents. After the dictatorship ended with the removal of president Jean-Claude Duvalier (François'...
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late 1970s (with discontent surrounding the increasing opulence of the Duvalier dictatorship), youth from Port-au-Prince (and to a lesser extent Cap-Haïtien...
opposition to the regime. Officers who attempted to resist Duvalier forfeited their careers. In 1963 Duvalier expelled the United States military mission, which...
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meant brotherhood between Poles and Haitians. Many years later François Duvalier, the president of Haiti who was known for his black nationalist and Pan-African...
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