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- ↑ "Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits". Chicago Reader. 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
- ↑ Miles, Melinda; Charles, Mary Eugenia (2004). Let Haiti live: unjust U.S. policies towards its oldest neighbor. Educa Vision Inc. ISBN 9781584321880 . Retrieved 2011-07-21.
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