Rameau Estimé
Rameau Estimé was a Haitian pro-Duvalier politician, and former member of the cabinet and president of the Chamber of Deputies.[1]
Estimé was president of the Chamber of Deputies on multiple occasions, including from 1962 to 1963.[2] He was appointed minister of justice from 1963[3] to 1967. François Duvalier imprisoned him in Fort Dimanche in 1967, and offered him to take up him former position as minister justice in 1968 when he was released from prison.[4]
Estimé was later again imprisoned in 1970 while he was still a minister[4][5] and he died in prison cell[1] in May 1976 on diarrhea and malnutrition.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Treaster, Joseph B. (27 October 1986). "TORTURE BY FORMER DUVALIER AIDE IS RECOUNTED AS TRAIL NEARS". The New York Times.
- ^ Lemoine, Patrick (3 May 2011). Fort-Dimanche, Fort-La-Mort. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 9781426965111 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hilton, Ronald (1963). "Hispanic American Report". Stanford University, Hispanic American Studies.
- ^ a b Abbott, Elizabeth (21 July 2011). "Haiti: A Shattered Nation". Abrams.
- ^ de Onis, Juan (24 May 1970). "Relaxation of Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Haiti Is Expected by U.S. Officials in Port‐au‐Prince". The New York Times.
- ^ Programs, United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related (1980). "Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for 1981: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session". U.S. Government Printing Office.
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