40th President of the Republic of Haiti (1907-1971)
People connected to François Duvalier
A physician who turned Haiti into a police state. François Duvalier ruled for fourteen years behind a death squad so pervasive that fear itself became the structure of government, and declared himself president for life in 1964.
François Duvalier completed a degree in medicine from the University of Haiti in 1934 and spent a year at the University of Michigan studying public health. In 1943 he became active in a campaign to control the spread of contagious tropical diseases in Haiti, and patients affectionately called him "Papa Doc," a moniker he used throughout his life. He served as Minister for Public Health and Labor under Dumarsais Estimé, then was elected president in the 1957 general election on a populist and black nationalist platform. After thwarting a military coup d'état in July 1958, his regime rapidly be…
Sourced, dated quotes from François Duvalier
In the Caribbean nation of Haiti it was the eleventh year of rule by François Duvalier, the little country doctor, friend of the poor black man, who had become a mass murderer.
Communism has established centres of infection...
I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.
Bullets and machine guns capable of daunting Duvalier do not exist. They cannot touch me... I am already an immaterial being. No foreigner is going to tell me what to do!
God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.
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