François Duvalier
Physician and former President of HaitiWikipedia
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Sep 10, 2026
JonathanHOST
Yeah.
JonathanHOST
Papa Doc don't play Doc.
JonathanHOST
Yeah.
JonathanHOST
Papa Doc.
JonathanHOST
But I hate
ArianaHOST
that it's Nikki.
Eric EdelmanGUEST
... uh, and replaces them with, you know, Cory, um, Aquino.
Eric EdelmanGUEST
Um, you have the, um, you have the change in Haiti where, uh, Baby Doc, you know, Duvalier is, is replaced.
Eric EdelmanGUEST
I mean, unfortunately, Haiti has gone on to be a, you know, persistent, you know-
Roger ZakheimHOST
Yeah
Eric EdelmanGUEST
... failed state.
Eric EdelmanGUEST
Uh, but you know, that, those state failures were already evident under the Duvaliers.
Eric EdelmanGUEST
Uh, so, uh, you know, h- so the president's willingness to actually advocate for democracy and freedom and, uh, his understanding of what the power of, uh, you know, freedom, uh, could mean, I think, um, i- is, uh, a lot different than, you know, what I think people have normally ascribed to, uh, r- you know, conservative internationalism on the Republican side.
Roger ZakheimHOST
This is Roger Zakheim, director of the Reagan Institute and host of Reaganism.
speaker_0HOST
Uncle Francis was friends with the president at that time's son.
speaker_0HOST
So his Papa Doc was the president and Baby Doc was the son.
speaker_0HOST
So Uncle Francis calls Baby Doc is like, hey, I need some professional divers.
speaker_0HOST
I need you to pull some strings.
C.L. SmoothSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Still he won't down you or tear out your hide On your side while the baby make a slide But mama got wise to the game The youngest of five kids, hun, here it is After ten years without no spouse Mama's getting married in the house Listen, positive over negative Fool the woman a master Mother queen's rise in the chapter Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do When they reminisce over you, my God When I date back, I recall a man off the family tree.
C.L. SmoothSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My right hand, Papa Doc, I see.
C.L. SmoothSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Took me from a boy to a man, so I always had a father when my biological didn't bother.
C.L. SmoothSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Taking care of this, so who am I to pick up? Not a bad ticker, but I'm clocking Pop's liver.
Gary ArndtHOST
While the Haitian debt is a big part of the difference between the two countries, you also can't discount each country's experience with dictators in the twentieth century.
Gary ArndtHOST
Haiti, under thirty years of Duvalier rule, saw François Duvalier, AKA Papa Doc, and Jean-Claude Duvalier, AKA Baby Doc.
Gary ArndtHOST
They siphoned off much of the Haitian economy for their own personal enrichment.
Gary ArndtHOST
Meanwhile, the Trujillo government in the Dominican Republic, while very authoritarian, emphasized infrastructure, technology, and education.
MartyHOST
Like, a lot of these characters were real.
MartyHOST
So Papa Doc and then his son Baby Doc were real people that were overthrown, and they were actually torturing people.
MartyHOST
And they...
MartyHOST
Supposedly, if you ask a Haitian who was alive at that time or whose parents were alive at that time or whatever, was at least accused of using voodoo as a part of their political apparatus, actually, in, like, ways of... getting at their, you know, political enemies and those kinds of things.
Egberto WilliesHOST
How many times have we here at Politics Done Right spoken about we want some form of democracy in the United States, but we want autocratic governments around the world? If you doubt it, I'll name a few.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Haiti, Baby Doc, Papa Doc, Nicaragua, Somoza.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Philippines.
Egberto WilliesHOST
I can't remember his name right now, but the president of the Philippines, Marco...
Régine Jean-CharlesGUEST
the first Black Republic in the Western Hemisphere, because of my parents.
Régine Jean-CharlesGUEST
So I was raised in a household by Haitian immigrants who came to the United States in the 1960s during the Duvalier regime.
Régine Jean-CharlesGUEST
And Haitian history was everywhere in my household.
Régine Jean-CharlesGUEST
You know, we were always, my dad was a physician by training, but he was very much what people used to call a left brain and right brain person.
Doug CaseyHOST
Yeah, I can imagine.
Doug CaseyHOST
And another thing that resonated to me was you talked about your trip to Haiti during the days of Papa Doc, I guess it was.
Doug CaseyHOST
I was also there then.
Doug CaseyHOST
And you mentioned the hotel thing.
Doug CaseyHOST
It was a much, much better place.
Doug CaseyHOST
It was friendly.
Doug CaseyHOST
It was safe when Papa Doc and even Baby Doc was running it.
Doug CaseyHOST
But now it is a genuinely dangerous shithole.
Pete WrightHOST
I love it.
Pete WrightHOST
This movie was shot on location in Haiti also while the Duvalier regime was coming apart.
Pete WrightHOST
And I think that is fascinating history, too.
Pete WrightHOST
So all of these are movies about colonial exploitation that are also... colonial fantasies it's very strange and we're gonna have to reckon with that um white zombie is free public domain it's everywhere i'm gonna try to find a link to the best one that because some of them are pretty stupid and muddy um and the rest are cheap rentals if you don't have it now i don't know what to call it i i was looking at the working dead as a title, but Take This Job and Shovel It was in there too.
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