After weeks of popular unrest, the dictator known as Baby Doc Duvalier, finally left Haiti on 7 February 1986.
But Haitians did not find the peace and prosperity they had hoped for after the fall of the Duvalier dynasty.
Published on Monday, 7th February 2011.
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