75 years after Prez Dumarsais Estimé's fall, what Haiti can still learn from his vision

75 years after Prez Dumarsais Estimé's fall, what Haiti can still learn from his vision

By Stéphane Pierre-PaulA tale of two leaders shaped by crisisIt would be unreasonable to compare former Haitian president Dumarsais Estimé (1946-1950) to former French president  Charles de Gaulle (1944-1946). The two men are not comparable, given the immense footprint the French general left in 20th-century political history—a resistance hero against Nazism, a military leader, a respected writer, a visionary statesman, and the voice of a nation…