Michèle Bennett Duvalier was jean-claude-duvalier's wife and, from 1980 onward, one of the central political figures of the regime's final phase.
abbott-haiti-duvaliers-ch-notes frames her as an accelerant of the regime's collapse — not because she caused its structural weaknesses but because her presence concentrated and made visible the contradictions that jeanclaudism had been managing through performance of reform since 1977.