Jean Dominique

Jean Dominique was also the pseudonym of Marie Closset (1873-1952) Belgian poetess.

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Jean Léopold Dominique , born the July 30th 1930 and assassinated the April 3rd 2000, was a journalist Haiti in.

Biography

Seventh of a family of eight children, it studies the Agronomie with Haiti, then share to supplement its formation with the agronomic National institute (INA), with Paris in the years 1950. Over there, he discovers the Cinéma, and all his potential of political tool.

Of return to Haiti, it founds the first film club of the country and encourages the intellectuals to create a national cinema. In parallel, it starts to work with Radio Haiti. Two years after his first collaboration with the media, the owner of radio operator proposes to him to repurchase the radio.

Begin an great adventure then, that Jean Dominique will carry out until the end of his life. Little by little, he manages to escape the censure from the capacity, to offer to the Haitian people free information and in Creole. Its combat, that his wife Michele Montas will divide, will help the country to revolt against the dictatorship of the Duvalier, Papa Doc. and its son Baby Doc..

Nevertheless, it will be forced, to save its life, to exile itself on several occasions, with the Nicaragua and the the United States with New York.

After a triumphal return to Haiti in 1986, Jean Dominique supports initially with passion Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide is elected in 1990, but a coup d'etat carried out by Raoul Cédras will reverse it, and force Jean Dominique and his wife with a second exile. Of return in 1994 to Haiti after the departure of Raoul Cédras under the pressure of the Clinton administration, Dominique takes again Radio Haiti-Inter, but does not support any more the policy of the Parti Lavalas Jean-Bertrand Aristide whose drifts grâves accumulate. Its virulent criticisms will put it him and Michele Montas in danger of death, with a contract of 60.000$ on their heads in a country subjected to violence. He was assassinated in front of the buildings of radio operator the April 3rd 2000. The assassins were not identified, and the silent partners are suspected of belonging to the Lavalas party

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