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- ↑ First Women Deputies Sit In Unicameral Haiti Sun, 14 May 1961
- ↑ Caribbean Refugee Crisis, Cubans and Haitians: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, May 12, 1980 p88
- ↑ Patrick Lemoine (2011) Fort-Dimanche, Dungeon of Death P154
- ↑ 427. Telegram 3658 From the Embassy in Haiti to the Department of State Office of the Historian