Acte de l'Indépendance d'Haiti
Independence Day, 1986–2026: Haiti’s unfinished rupture with power abuse legitimised by history
Tweet Haiti’s last appeals to history – then and now L’Edito du Rezo On 2 January 1986, Haiti’s president Jean-Claude Duvalier addressed the nation for the Jour des Aïeux. It would be one of his final public speeches. Barely five weeks later, he fled the country. Read today, the address sounds less like a programme for governance than a valedictory attempt to anchor a collapsing regime in the authority of the past. Four decades on, the echoes of that moment […]
