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1981

1981: Concessionary oil sales from Venezuela and Mexico are suspended after the Duvaliers sold a shipment before it arrived.

1981: Concessionary oil sales from Venezuela and Mexico are suspended after the Duvaliers sold a shipment before it arrived. This scandal highlighted the extreme level of corruption at the highest levels of the regime.

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