It’s been just over a year since the devastating earthquake in Haiti and things haven’t improved very much. Many people are still living in refugee camps and the international aid dollars have not been distributed yet. A wave of cholera has hit the island and there’s still a disputed presidential election, but this news is a real headscratcher:
Exiled former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier returned unexpectedly to his Caribbean homeland on Sunday for the first time since he was deposed in a coup in 1986.
Duvalier, known as “Baby Doc,” who had ruled Haiti following the 1971 death of his father, the authoritarian Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, had been living in France in exile.
I wonder what Duvalier has to gain from this. Did the international community know this was going to happen?