Haiti: Warning to a Dictator

"Blood will flow as never before. The land will burn from the north to the south, from the east to the west. There will be no sunrise nor sunset, just one big flame licking the sky. It will be the greatest slaughter in history. There will be a Himalaya of corpses."

It was the opening rally in a "Month of National Gratefulness to Duvalier," and the speaker was a henchman of Haiti's Dictator. Françpois Duvalier himself was on hand, surrounded by helmeted palace guards and blue-denimed militiamen. He had given orders for his men to explain to Haitians just what...

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