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From: "Walter Miale" <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
Lolita wasn't the only "controversial" book in Aristide's library.
Back in the days when Aristide was a saint, he was the nation's most
influential critic of the brutal regime of the dictator, "Baby Doc"
Duvalier. In the Parish of the Poor, Aristide wrote of the day when macoutes
opened fire in his church with automatic weapons, killing somewhere between
ten and twenty parishioners, and torched the sanctuary (I saw the charred
ruin when I was in Port-au-Prince), and cornered him in his room and
menaced him. "Fifty or so men were in my little room, ripping apart my
library, looking for bad books.
They found something by Marx, and shouted 'Communist,' and I believe they
would have executed me then and there for that one sin of reading Marx, if
it hadn't been for another colonel, who talked them out of it."
From: "Walter Miale" <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
Lolita wasn't the only "controversial" book in Aristide's library.
Back in the days when Aristide was a saint, he was the nation's most
influential critic of the brutal regime of the dictator, "Baby Doc"
Duvalier. In the Parish of the Poor, Aristide wrote of the day when macoutes
opened fire in his church with automatic weapons, killing somewhere between
ten and twenty parishioners, and torched the sanctuary (I saw the charred
ruin when I was in Port-au-Prince), and cornered him in his room and
menaced him. "Fifty or so men were in my little room, ripping apart my
library, looking for bad books.
They found something by Marx, and shouted 'Communist,' and I believe they
would have executed me then and there for that one sin of reading Marx, if
it hadn't been for another colonel, who talked them out of it."