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El pensamiento sociopolítico moderno en el Caribe (Sección de obras de historia)
Las sociedades antillanas son producto de cruces histórico-geográficos y del encuentro de las poblaciones indias y negras con colonialistas de todo tipo que han surcado las aguas caribeñas. Sin embargo, el autor afirma en esta obra que bajo ese mosaico de colores, los países del área sí configuran un sólido sustrato de cultura y civilización.
264 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2012
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About the author
Gérard Pierre-Charles
4 books1 followerHaitian politician and former leader of the Unified Party of Haitian Communists. Pierre-Charles was also an economist and author.
In his youth, he worked at a cement plant in Port-au-Prince and organized a union there. In 1959, he helped found an underground Marxist party and went into exile in Mexico the following year. He studied economics there and subsequently taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Pierre-Charles helped organize the Unified Party of Haitian Communists. After the overthrow of Jean-Claude Duvalier, he returned to Haiti in 1986. He supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was elected president of Haiti in 1991 but then went into exile after he was deposed by the military. Soon after Aristide's return in 1994, Pierre-Charles became one of his most vocal critics. Aristide's supporter's burnt Pierre-Charles' house down.
Pierre-Charles married Suzy Castor; the couple had three sons and one daughter.
He died of heart failure in Havana where he had come to receive medical treatment.
In his youth, he worked at a cement plant in Port-au-Prince and organized a union there. In 1959, he helped found an underground Marxist party and went into exile in Mexico the following year. He studied economics there and subsequently taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Pierre-Charles helped organize the Unified Party of Haitian Communists. After the overthrow of Jean-Claude Duvalier, he returned to Haiti in 1986. He supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was elected president of Haiti in 1991 but then went into exile after he was deposed by the military. Soon after Aristide's return in 1994, Pierre-Charles became one of his most vocal critics. Aristide's supporter's burnt Pierre-Charles' house down.
Pierre-Charles married Suzy Castor; the couple had three sons and one daughter.
He died of heart failure in Havana where he had come to receive medical treatment.
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