Deadly Road to Democracy [Paperback]

Franki Regis (Author), Kent Miles (Author), Marc-Yves Regis (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

Deadly Road to Democracy is a first-person account of Haiti's brutal struggle for democracy in a country that was ruled by dictators for nearly 200 years.

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...personal account of the political events that occurred in Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in 1986. -- Leslie Desmangles, Ph.D., President of the Haitian Studies Association

A fascinating account of the struggle of Haitians for democracy, and their betrayal by their beloved leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. -- Alex Dupuy, Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan Univeristy

About the Author

Marc Yves Regis I, a native of Haiti, is the author of the poetry book, "Haiti Through My Eyes." Mr. Regis received an associate's degree in photography at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderale. He is currently a photojournalist at The Hartford Courant in Connecticut.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Down Home Pub; 1st edition (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966395204
• ISBN-13: 978-0966395204
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,478,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling, captivating, illustrative., November 24, 1998

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This review is from: Deadly Road to Democracy (Paperback)

Since Haiti gained its independence from the French in 1804, volatile governments stifled the country's growth. Although it was the Western Hemisphere's second democracy, the impoverished country remained islolated for many years. However, Marc Yves Regis I has written a personal and provacative story of Haiti's disenchanted poor. Regis, a Hartford Courant photographer, opens the door to Haiti's dark, brutal secrets with explicit photographs taken in his native country. During the last decade, Regis traveled back-and-forth to Haiti, an impoverished country pushed further into dispair in the early 1990s by an international embargo that was supposed to punish an illegal military government. Instead, peasant children starved because food prices rose during the U.S.-led embargo. In addition, armed paramilitary thugs controlled the poor with iron fists. Gunfire rang out each night and dead bodies lined the roads each morning. In the book, Regis uses his mother's voice to tell a poignant story of how the Haitian military and its hired thugs tortured and killed innocent people. The book outlines Haiti's democractic reforms, beginning with the 1990 appointment of the country's first woman president. A year later, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot handed power to Jean-Bertrand Aristide who captured the presidency with an overwhelming 67 percent of the vote in the country's first true, democratic election. The military, however, overthrew the fiery former priest in a bloody coup d'etat. Aristide lived in exile in a plush Washington, D.C. suburb for mare than three years until the United States, in a military show of force, restored him to power.