Tooltip Categories: Haiti
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Bay kou, bliye. Pote mak, sonje.
The one who gives the blow, forgets. The one who suffers the hurt, remembers.
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Deye mon gen mon.
Beyond the mountains there are more mountains. Michael Diebert finds this to be “a beautiful expression, not only of hope and struggle, but of lineage, of history.”
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Syrians, The
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Battle of Vertières, The
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Lè yo vle touye chen, yo di’l fou
When people want to kill a dog, they say it’s rabid.
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Duvalierist State, The
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Coffee Revolution
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Code Henry, The
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Prosper, Marcaisse
Port-au-Prince Chief of Police during the administration of both Éstime and Magloire (1945 – 1956). He was a supporter of Magloire’s assaults on Haitians’ civil liberties.
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Lachenais, Madelaine
Pétion, Alexandre’s mistress. Soon after Pétion’s death, didn’t wait for the brother’s body to get cold, almost immediately became Boyer’s official mistress.