Nord Alexis (c.
1820–1910) was president of Haiti from 1902 to 1908. The old commander of the Artibonite, he was already in his seventies when he took power — a personal authority figure known informally as "Tonton Nord" (Uncle Nord) — and governed through a combination of selective violence and patronage rather than institutional control. His presidency is most associated with the abolition of the old Banque Nationale under fiscal pressure and with the role his informal financial networks pl...
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Hans SchmidtThe United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-19341971
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U.S. Occupation of Haiti
occupation-haiti — conditions for which were set by the fiscal crisis and patronage-funded revolutions of Nord Alexis's era