François Duvalier is a Haitian politician.
In-Game Biography[]
The mulattos call François Duvalier a dangerous man, a threat to law and order. The Afro-Haitian majority—especially those most hostile to the élite and most strongly adherent to Négritude and black nationalism—regard him as the bearer of their hopes. The military, who are the other half of his support base, call him 'a good sort'.
But everyone—starting with the patients he served so diligently in his younger days and continuing to military men, foreigners, and diplomats—calls him Papa Doc.
Where his path to power was not at all certain, his views always were: racism and violence that occurred during the United States occupation of Haiti in the late 1910s inspired black nationalism among Haitians and left a powerful impression on the young Duvalier. Duvalier saw the poor black majority and their resentment against the mulattocracy. Supporting Pan-African ideals, he became involved in the local Négritude movement, beginning a long and chaotic political journey interrupted by returns to his medical doctorate—
—and now, suddenly, by an upset victory, he is President of Haiti. Most believe that he will destroy the old mulattocrat elite and oppose the Americans; beyond that, however, his policies are anyone's guess, and he may well travel down a path no-one was expecting.