Dominican Today6h
Dominican Republic was the epicenter of several plots against Fidel Castro and Francois Duvalier
Cuban groups used the Dominican Republic as a base of operations, meetings, and planning to invade and control Haiti and then ...
Le poète et romancier haïtien Anthony Phelps est mort
Exilé sous la dictature Duvalier, il aura consacré sa vie à dénoncer les injustices à travers une poésie engagée, reconnue ...
Radio France Internationale2d
De la dictature à l'exil, l'écrivaine Jan J. Dominique raconte Haïti
En 1957, à Port-au-Prince en Haïti, naît Karine Rivel. La même année, François Duvalier, dit Papa Doc, est élu à la tête d'Haïti, quelque temps avant d'en devenir le dictateur brutal et ...
Frankétienne, considered one of Haiti’s most important and prolific writers, dies at 88
Frankétienne, a renowned writer, painter, actor and musician known as the “father of Haitian letters” has died. He was 88.
Hindustan Times28d
Frankétienne, considered one of Haiti's most important and prolific writers, dies at 88
It was based on his experience of living under the brutal dictatorship of François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc. Frankétienne also was renowned for works including “Au Fil du Temps ...
The Real Mount Rushmore of football in the United States
Many, both at home and abroad, forget that the US took part in the first-ever World Cup.Though it featured only thirteen nations, the US topped a group that included Paraguay and future European ...
The Irish Times26d
Apartheid South Africa: ‘Ernest Cole’s photographs were the first that told the story from inside the beast’
“I was in Berlin, studying,” says Peck, whose family had fled the regime of François Duvalier. “I was around 17. It was a time of fighting for anybody coming from the third world. There was ...