When Jean Claude Duvalier and his fashionable wife, Michelle, were whisked away into a comfortable French exile in February 1986, their departure brought about a democratic experiment that many believe two decades later would have brought Haiti into a land of prosperity.
But that transition from a despotic society to a democratic one has not been smooth, to put it mildly. In many ways there are signs that the country has taken significant steps backward while making a few forward steps. While there have been at least three marginal successful presidential elections since 1990, the country appears stuck with little progress being made both economically and politically.
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