Jean-Jacob Jeudy place in Haiti post 1986's uprising which successfully forced Jean Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) to flee power. Jeudy attended State University of Haiti, Faculte des Sciences Humaines where he received a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. In 1987, he became one of the youngest journalists to work at Radio Cacique, aged 17. In 1991, after the coup d'état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide, Jeudy was forced into hiding. In 1992, he joined another famous Haitian radio station, Radio Caraïbes, where he became director of news. In 1994, he was forced into exile in the United States. In 1996, he joined
François Duvalier was one of the most repressive in the hemisphere. Within the country he murdered and exiled his opponents; estimates of those killed are as high as 60,000. Attacks on Duvalier from within the military were treated as especially serious. When bombs were detonated near the Presidential Palace in 1967, Duvalier had nineteen officers of the Presidential Guard executed in Fort Dimanche. A few days later Duvalier had a public speech during which he read the attendance sheet with names of all 19 officers killed. After each name, he said "absent". After reading the whole list, Duvalier remarked that "all were