14816: Lawless: Duvalier

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert Lawless <robert.lawless@wichita.edu>
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The cover story of today's USA Today (13 February) summarizes the Italian
journalist Riccardo Orizio's book  on disposed dictators titled Talk of
the Devil due out in April. In one part Orizio describes Jean-Claude
Duvalier as practicing voodoo and studying solar energy in Paris, and  the
story goes on to say that "despite the millions he reportedly salted away
during his corrupt reign, he was for a time penniless and virtually
homeless. But his financial situation mysteriously ease." Does anyone have
any information on this "mystery"?