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1960’s: Consolidation of Totalitarian Apparatus: Urban middle classes and rural elites provided provisional consent, allowing Duvalier to establish centraliz…

1960’s: Consolidation of Totalitarian Apparatus: Urban middle classes and rural elites provided provisional consent, allowing Duvalier to establish centralized authoritarian control. Significance: Consent, even if temporary, enabled the institutionalization of repression. The regime gained time to entrench itself. Nuance: Trouillot emphasizes ambivalence. Many Haitians outwardly accepted the regime but morally rejected it. The regime’s power rested partly on silence and strategic accommodation. ( Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Haiti: State Against Nation (1990) 199)