1922
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