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1986-Feb.-07

1986-Feb.-07: Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti on a U.S.

1986-Feb.-07: Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti on a U.S. aircraft, ending twenty-nine years of Duvalierist rule. His departure followed months of nationwide popular protests and the withdrawal of international support.

Source Girard, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, 132; Trouillot, Haiti: State Against Nation, 226; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, xi