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Former Dictator Returns to Haiti

   VOA News  16 January 2011

Photo: AP Photo/Kathy Willens

   Former  dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has returned to Haiti
   after nearly 25 years in exile (File Photo)

   Former  Haitian  dictator  Jean-Claude  Duvalier  has  returned to his
   homeland for the first time since he was ousted in a coup in 1986.
   Until  the  coup, Duvalier, known as "Baby Doc," had ruled Haiti since
   the  1971  death of his father, Francois "Papa Doc'' Duvalier.  It is
   not clear why the younger Duvalier returned.
   His return comes at a time of political crisis in Haiti following Nov.
   28  presidential  and legislative elections, whose preliminary results
   have triggered fraud allegations and protests.
   The  elections  were  followed  by a cholera epidemic in the Caribbean
   island nation, which is still recovering from a devastating earthquake
   a year ago that killed more than 300,000 people.
   Duvalier was living in France in a self-imposed exile.

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