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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1964, April 1 | |
| François Duvalier became president for life. | 1 |
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| A new constitution, although providing for universal suffrage and an elected one-chamber legislature, concentrated all executive power in a president elected for life. Duvalier, who posed as the champion of the poverty-stricken black masses, had broken the power of the army and was loyally protected by a personal guard. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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