January 1971 - Haiti’s National Assembly approves a constitutional amendment which allows Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier to appoint someone under 40 years old as his successor. April 21, 1971 - ...

Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who ruled the impoverished Caribbean nation with an iron fist from 1971 until his ouster in 1986, died of a heart attack. He was 63. The death ...

During the 15-year reign of Haiti's former president Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, extreme poverty strangled the island nation. Ninety percent of the population subsisted on less than $150 annually ...

Jean-Claude Duvalier, a former president of Haiti who ruled the country with a bloody brutality, died on Saturday. Reuters Mr. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after a 25-year exile and continued to ...

When Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier made a surprising return to Haiti in 2011 after a quarter-century in exile, some hoped the aging dictator would finally have to answer for the abuses of his regime ...

Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier will not receive a state funeral after all, his lawyer said Thursday, after public outrage that a man accused of corruption and mass killings ...

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as "Baby Doc," attends his hearing Feb. 28, 2013 at court in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as Haitian authorities charged Duvalier with human rights abuses ...

Haitian authorities moved toward trying Jean-Claude Duvalier for alleged corruption and embezzlement during his brutal 15-year rule, opening an investigation against the former dictator whose ...

Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier started out his French exile living large on the Riviera: He drove a Ferrari, went on couture shopping sprees and lived in a gated villa protected by guards with ...

In January, 2011, one year after an earthquake killed tens of thousands of people (by some estimates, hundreds of thousands), Jean-Claude Duvalier landed unannounced in Haiti following twenty-five ...

Reporting from Mexico City — Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, a former dictator of Haiti whose brutal regime triggered a popular uprising that freed the country from one-family rule but resolved none ...