1991. Geraldo Rivera on his Now It Can Be Told news program, with an exclusive report on the lifestyles of ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, living in Paris 5 years after his overthrow. This dictator’s reign was marked by corruption, death, and mass emigration from the island nation — even a state-sponsored 2 million dollar wedding in 1980, while his country remained the poorest in the western hemisphere. We interview his lawyer in France, who insists the President has done nothing wrong.
The clip then moves on to an interview with David Whipple, Executive Director for the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, about the issues in Haiti, and the likelihood of the army re-instating their commander in chief, Baby Doc Duvalier.
President Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown by popular uprising in 1986, fleeing to France on a U.S. Air Force flight. He unexpectedly returned to Haiti in 2011, was arrested on charges of corruption, and died of a heart attack in 2014.
1991 was the year of a separate coupe d`etat in Haiti, when the army deposed the elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who returned to power in 1994.