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Duvalier responded with a 10% reduction in staple food prices, the closing of independent radio stations, a cabinet reshuffle, and a crackdown by police and army units, but these moves failed to dampen the momentum of the popular uprising. Jean‑Claude's wife and advisers urged him to put down the rebellion in order to remain in office.
Jean-Claude Duvalier (French: [ʒɑ̃klod dyvalje]; 3 July 1951 – 4 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" (French: Bébé Doc, Haitian Creole: Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian dictator who inherited the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986.
Simone Duvalier's influence reached its peak after the death of her husband on 21 April 1971, when her nineteen-year-old son Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) succeeded his father as Haiti's "President for Life". Simone Duvalier retained the title of First Lady, and relished the power it conferred.
Exulien said his offense was criticizing Jean-Claude Duvalier in class. ... He bought a three-bedroom home in Little Haiti in 1978 to raise his children with his wife Mona.
Carmen Jean-François: Daniel Fignolé: May 25, 1957 – May 25, 1957 Marie Yvonne Charles Kébreau: Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau: June 14, 1957 – October 22, 1957 Simone Duvalier (1913–1997) François Duvalier: October 22, 1957 – April 21, 1971 Michèle Bennett (1950–present) Jean-Claude Duvalier: 1971–1986 Gisèle Célestin Namphy ...
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Under his policies, Haiti's per capita income plummeted to $329 in 2000, compared to $600 in 1980 during the height of Jean-Claude Duvalier's rule. [13] Delatour's strategies led to a loss of self-sufficiency in rice production, leaving the country dependent on food imports and susceptible to fluctuations in global food prices.
Jean-Baptiste Belley, former slave from Saint Domingue; Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, engineer and the only passenger of known African ancestry on the ill-fated voyage of the RMS Titanic. Michèle Bennett, ex-wife of former President for Life of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier.