12 December 1956 to 4 February 1957 · Haitianspan
A judge lasts fifty five days and resigns into a general strike
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Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis took the provisional presidency on 12 December 1956 and gave it up on 4 February 1957. He was fifty six, a bachelor judge from Cap-Haitien who sat on the court at The Hague, and his cabinet was assembled from cronies and stand-ins for Dejoie and Duvalier. Leaving out Jumelle and Fignole guaranteed that both men would fight him. The Parti du Peuple Haitien demanded an immediate return to the principles of Dumarsais Estime and wanted Jumelle barred over the empty treasury he had left behind as finance minister. Through January its squads, which called themselves commandos, hunted down Magloire's appointees, beat them and drove them out of their offices. A bomb went off at a margarine plant on 10 January and a larger one blew in the north door of the legislature two weeks later, breaking windows across downtown. On 1 February the Dejoie ministers resigned together and a second general strike closed the fuel pumps, the agricultural school, the general hospital and the business district. Pierre-Louis resigned three days after that.
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