Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier was charged with corruption and the theft of his country's meagre funds last night after the former Haitian dictator was hauled before a judge in Port-au-Prince
Two days after his return to the country he left following a brutal 15-year rule, a noisy crowd of his supporters protested outside the state prosecutor's office while he was questioned over accusations that he stole public funds and committed human rights abuses after taking over as president from his father in 1971.
I honestly did not see this coming. I assumed that if Baby Doc was coming home, that he would have, you know, some kind of a plan for surviving, something to avoid this kind of nonsense. Of course, maybe he does. Papa Doc surely would have. But this is Baby, so...
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