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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nations—Haiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti’s President François ...

The scraps of paper came in pink, red, green, blue and yellow. But they all said the same thing: “Citizen Dr. François Duvalier, President of the Republic, will exercise for life his high functions ...

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, 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, Haiti (AP) — 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 ...

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