Marc Bazin was a Haitian technocrat, World Bank official, and presidential candidate whose 1987 campaign concentrated the specific contradictions of U.
S. policy during Haiti's post-Duvalier democratic transition. In Amy Wilentz's account of the period — the primary vault source — he is "Mr. Clean": a candidate positioned on technocratic competence and economic management, who carried the explicit backing of the Reagan Administration, and whose campaign signs read "Votez Marc Bazin" in French ...