Papa Doc: Haiti's President for Life • 2015 • episode "10/10" • Evolution of Evil

Category: History

Francois Duvalier trained as a medical doctor, but his healing touch was lost as he became the ruthless dictator "Papa Doc". The tools of his tyranny were violence and Voodoo. He killed 30,000 people, and kept a nation in fear of his mystical powers.

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