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I am an educated Haitian in 1956. A popular doctor who made his name by going to rural villages and curing people of typhus and yaws is running for President. Is it obvious to me what kind of President 'Papa Doc' will turn out to be? Are there any signs I might see that portend his dispotic rule?

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I am an educated Haitian in 1956. A popular doctor who made his name by going to rural villages and curing people of typhus and yaws is running for President. Is it obvious to me what kind of President 'Papa Doc' will turn out to be? Are there any signs I might see that portend his dispotic rule?	237	AskHistorians