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"Baby Doc" HypocrisyLike many tyrants, Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier insisted that everything he did — from torturing political opponents to looting the country — was for the national good. The extent of Baby Doc's hypocrisy, however, was evident in the posters which he once erected around Haiti: "I should like to stand before the tribunal of history as the person who irreversibly founded democracy in Haiti," they read. Each was signed: "Jean-Claude Duvalier, president-for-life."
Duvalier, Jean-Claude ["Baby Doc"] (1951- ) Haitian dictator (1971-1986), son of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier [noted for his flight from Haiti after widespread civil unrest (1986)]
[Sources: The New Yorker, 2003-07-28; Riccardo Orizio, Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators]More Jean-Claude Duvalier anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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