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Top Duvalier Aides Living in Splendor in U.S.
February 13, 1986|MICHAEL WINES | Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — At least three top associates of exiled Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier have quietly entered the United States and are living in anonymous splendor in expensive hotels and hideaways, Haitian activists and other experts said Wednesday.
The three, including Duvalier's father-in-law and his former interior and foreign ministers, arrived here shortly before the strongman known as "Baby Doc" flew to temporary asylum in France last Friday aboard a U.S. Air Force plane.
Word of their presence has outraged some Haitian leaders in the United States, who say American tolerance implies continued support for Duvalier and his allies, some of whom hold key posts in Haiti's new government.
"They're the same people who have been carrying out Baby Doc's orders," said Ray Josef, an official of the Haitian Committee on Unity, a New York-based activists' umbrella group. "They see eye-to-eye. These people who got rich while the people of Haiti were becoming the poorest in the hemisphere are now free to roam around this country and spend millions. It's unconscionable."
Valid Visas Used
A State Department spokesman, Jim Callahan, said the department was unaware that Duvalier's associates are in the United States but added that it is unlikely they would have been denied entry anyway. American officials in Port-au-Prince and Washington said the three Haitians apparently hold valid visas that give them the right to enter the United States at will.
A self-described friend of former Foreign Minister Jean-Robert Estime said that Estime "is going back as soon as there are planes flying back" to Haiti. Air service to and from the United States was to resume today.
Meanwhile, Estime was staying at Washington's expensive Four Seasons Hotel, where he apparently has lived since arriving here only hours before Duvalier's government toppled.
Estime, is one of the four members of Duvalier's "super-Cabinet" who were given overseas assignments in a Dec. 31 shake-up aimed at staving off unrest. He was named ambassador to the Organization of American States and the United States, but American officials never formally accepted his appointment.
On OAS Business
Estime's friend, who insisted on anonymity, said that the former foreign minister is in Washington on OAS business and claimed that his departure from Haiti last Thursday was totally unrelated to Duvalier's downfall.
L'article http://articles.latimes.com/1986-02-13/news/mn-23226_1
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