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'Baby Doc' Returns to Haiti

Dictator was pushed out in 1986.

In a stunning return that caught his nation off guard, exiled Haitian leader Jean-Claude Duvalier, also known as Baby Doc, returned to Haiti on Sunday night. Duvalier, who was pushed into exile in a 1986 rebellion, has been living in Paris ever since. He landed on an Air France plane in the late afternoon, wearing a suit and greeted by supporters and a delegation of his former cabinet ministers. "I am here to see how the situation is," Duvalier told local radio. Haiti is still reeling from a presidential election many saw as rigged; the country’s current leader, Réne Préval, has been pressured to remove his chosen successor from a runoff.