Hispaniola: Trujillo's Voudou Legacy

January 7, 2013
In the aftermath of a 1937 massacre, Rafael Trujillo’s violent regime launched a campaign to demonize Haitians, using voudou...
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How to Make a Zombie

November 2, 2011
by Nora Connor In its October issue, Harper’s* revisits the zombie phenomenon--the Haitian kind, that is, not the

Rise Up, Rich Men and Soldiers!

January 24, 2006
24 January 2006 Pity the poor New York Times, struggling to cover foreign affairs as best it can absent serious discussion of...
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No Country, No Medicine, No Chance

November 19, 2004
No Country, No Medicine, No Chance 19 November 2004 Hannah Tinti writes: “I just found out that Edwidge Danticat’s...

Rara Politics

April 12, 2004
The New York Times’s Lydia Polgreen explores some of Haiti’s politics of religion in today’s story, “An Easter Voodoo Festival with Political Undertones.” Learn more...

Voodoo Postmortem

March 31, 2004
Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: It’s more than an un-PC cliche. “‘Voodoo is part of Haitian politics,'” voodoo priest, Philippe Castera tells Marina Jimenez,...

Who's Being Spooky?

October 2, 2003
Last Spring, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti gave Voodoo official recognition, most notably legalizing Voodoo marriages. Now, reports Christianity Today, “Christians” fear...

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