In 1971 at age 19, Jean-Claude Duvalier became the world’s youngest president when his father, Francois Duvalier, died of a sudden illness. He ruled for 15 years before going into exile in 1986.

Here is a brief chronology of milestones in the life of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier: — April 1971: Haitian dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier dies and his teenage son, ...

Francois Duvalier, like many Haitians, had deeply resented this foreign occupation. Although he later worked with U.S.-sponsored public health programs, helping cure Haitian peasants of tropical ...

In one of the closest approximations of a free election in ail of Haiti’s dictator ridden history, François Duvalier won the presidency in 1957 on his record as a selfless country doctor fighting ...

The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nations—Haiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti’s President François ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-- Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jean-Claude-Duvalier, the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died ...