Sylvio Claude was a Haitian Protestant pastor, a former political prisoner under Jean-Claude Duvalier, a populist political figure, and a presidential candidate in the November 29, 1987 elections — the stillborn first democratic vote of Haiti's post-Duvalier transition.
His career compressed three defining elements of Haitian popular politics in the 1980s: Protestant evangelical growth as a political force, the personal biography of anti-Duvalier imprisonment as a political credential, and th...