The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nationsHaiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti's President François Duvalier, a onetime physician, has done little to improve the lot of a country that depends on a $5,000,000 annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his...
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