Luc Nerée was a Protestant pastor in Haiti who was beaten nearly to death by Macoutes in December 1977 — three months after jean-claude-duvalier announced jeanclaudism as the ideological "economic phase" of Duvalierism and three months into what was supposed to be Haiti's era of human-rights reform.
abbott-haiti-duvaliers-ch-notes uses the episode as the clearest single evidence that the Carter-era liberalization was theater: the government exonerated Nerée's attackers and blamed him. Nerée i...