April to July 1972 · Haitianspan
Foreign aid arrives and passes through one man's hands
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Donor countries divided Haiti's aid projects between them like assignments. The French took a road to Jacmel again, the Canadians the road to Cap-Haitien, and the list ran on. Money was in the air and so were the commissions. Most of what came in passed at some stage through Luckner Cambronne, whom Port-au-Prince had begun calling the Premier, a post the constitution does not provide for. Tourists landing at the airport were met by a portrait of the new president for life above his slogan: his father had made the political revolution and he would make the economic one. Many concluded that the chief beneficiary of the economic revolution was Cambronne. On 22 April 1972 Jean-Claude marked the first anniversary of his father's death at the cemetery and left as soon as the bugler finished. In July a team of American officers arrived to assess the army's needs, and the military academy reopened after eleven years.
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