HLTH260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Family Dictatorship, Well-Founded Relation
9 Jul 2019
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Chouchou louis grew up not far from kay in another small village in the steep and infertile highlands of haiti"s central plateau. He attended primary school for a couple of years but was obliged to drop out when his mother died. Then in his early teens, chouchou joined his father and an older sister in tending their hillside gardens. In short, there was nothing remarkable about chouchou"s childhood; it was brief and harsh, like most in rural haiti. Throughout the 1980s, church activities formed chouchou"s sole distraction. These were hard years for the haitian poor, beaten down by a family dictatorship well into its third decade. The duvaliers, father and son, ruled through violence, largely directed at people whose conditions of existence were similar to that of chouchou louis. Although many of them tried to flee, often by boat, us policy maintained that haitian asylum-seekers were "economic refugees. "
