Rameau Estimé Explained

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[5] and he died in prison cell in May 1976 on diarrhea and malnutrition.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Treaster . Joseph B. . TORTURE BY FORMER DUVALIER AIDE IS RECOUNTED AS TRAIL NEARS . The New York Times . 27 October 1986.
  2. Book: Lemoine, Patrick . Fort-Dimanche, Fort-La-Mort . 3 May 2011 . Trafford Publishing . 9781426965111 . Google Books.
  3. Book: Hilton . Ronald . Hispanic American Report . Stanford University, Hispanic American Studies . en . 1963.
  4. Book: Abbott . Elizabeth . Haiti: A Shattered Nation . Abrams . en . 21 July 2011. 978-1-4683-0160-1 .
  5. Web site: de Onis . Juan . Relaxation of Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Haiti Is Expected by U.S. Officials in Port-au-Prince . The New York Times . 24 May 1970.
  6. Book: Programs . United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related . 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 . en . 1980.

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