Baby Doc: Mysterious return after French exile

Sun, Jan 23rd 2011, 10:00 PM

By ANGELA DOLAND,

Associated Press

PARIS (AP) -- 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 assault rifles.

Then came an expensive divorce, a succession of modest apartments and a low-profile existence. It's been 25 years since Haiti's former "dictator for life" fled to France in 1986, and the French largely forgot he was here.

Duvalier's mysterious reappearance last weekend in Haiti, where he is blamed for sowing terror and looting the treasury, was a new nightmare for a country dealing with the aftermath of an ...

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