Around just after the winter of 1984, lasting for perhaps a couple of seasons, tensions between those uncomfortable with the President at that time in Duvalier, and those that continued to be in the support banding of Duvalier, described at a simplistic level, as there was an atmosphere of tension, was in existence reaching proportions that it became global news.

A few years after the turn of the new millennium 2000, protests emerged in Haiti, primarily on the subject of discomfort with the...