In 1971 at age 19, Jean-Claude Duvalier became the world’s youngest president when his father, Francois Duvalier, died of a sudden illness. He ruled for 15 years before going into exile in 1986.

Francois Duvalier, like many Haitians, had deeply resented this foreign occupation. Although he later worked with U.S.-sponsored public health programs, helping cure Haitian peasants of tropical ...

Involving criminal leaders in Haiti’s next government is a dangerous and ludicrous idea. By Jean-Philippe Austin How did the modern world’s most successful slave revolt give birth to a desperately ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HaitiPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian Bishop Francois-Wolff Ligonde, who presided over the lavish wedding of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier and was viewed as an ardent ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-- Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died ...