CREOLE, HAITIAN: Tonton Macoute ++
++ ) “Uncle Gunnysack” — Papa Doc’s death-squads; later employed by Baby
Doc’s regime & in subsequent Haitian civil wars, circa 1957—2000 (&
beyond; wore brownshirt drag & sunglasses & cultivated a baadaaaaassss
vodun aura, appropriating the native religion to their political ends ; the
death-squads used semi-automatics, but machete was preferred, if not
totemic weapon.
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