Toto Bissainthe of high tensions in Haiti. Francois Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, ran a military regime in Haiti from 1957 to 1971. His son Jean-Claude Duvalier, also known as “Baby Doc”, succeeded him from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986. In 1980, the Jean-Claude Duvalier dictatorship forbade all media critiques; they began exiling journalists. In "La Vie Ouvriére" newspaper, she spoke about her frustration regarding this matter. The interviewer asks her how is it that she was able to sing in Haiti, when he thought that she couldn’t. “I can return, but only for one show.
Jean-Claude Grumberg Jean-Claude Grumberg Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 1939) is a French writer of children's books and a playwright. Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play "L'Atelier". He discovered drama being an actor in the company. He became a writer in 1968 with "Demain, une fenêtre sur rue", and short texts like "Rixe" which played at the Comédie-Française. He writes about what haunts him since childhood: the death of his father in the Nazi death camps: "Maman revient pauvre orphelin", "Dreyfus" (1974), "L'Atelier" (1979) and "Zone libre"