And with this, came News . News of other oppressed populations around the world, struggling against tyrants not unlike the Haitians hated dictators, the Duvaliers. News from Nicaragua and Iran, of the dethroning of Somosa and the Shah by popular movements in those countries. We send them newsmen, journalists, to pick up information. They come to the station to give us information.
People start living the daily news.
For them, information this became their life. Fledging people s movements started to arise all over Haiti. Things started heating up around Duvalier s palace. But the grassroots movement that Jean helped create continued to grow and erode Baby Doc s power. Days after Duvalier finally fled Haiti for asylum in France, on February 7 th 1986, Jean and Michele returned to Haiti.