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1922: Louis Borno is elected president and becomes the primary instrument of the American “paternalistic” administration in Haiti, viewing it as a “beneficen…

1922: Louis Borno is elected president and becomes the primary instrument of the American “paternalistic” administration in Haiti, viewing it as a “beneficent application” of Christian duty. He persecuted his political opponents and utilized American arms to maintain his unpopular regime for eight years.

Source  ·  p. 151 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 151