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Title
When hunger overcomes fear, January
Date(s)
- 1986 (Creation)
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(1949-)
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In January 1986, riots and demonstrations against the Duvalier regime broke out throughout Haiti, especially in Cap-Haitien in the north. Following a full day of peaceful demonstrations over the high price of food, starving Haitians ransacked a huge food depot for CARE, a U.S. aid agency. People covered the building like ants on a piece of candy, despite the efforts of the Haitian army and police to drive them back as with a boy who tried to pull a box of food from beneath a shuttered door. One week later, the thirty-year Duvalier family dictatorship fell and Jean-Claude Duvalier fled with his family and loyal officers into exile with the help of the United States. Framed print.