The year was 1977. Haiti 39 s dictator Jean-Claude 39 39 Baby Doc 39 39 Duvalier was in the midst of unrelenting repression. Boatloads of Haitian refugees who arrived in South Florida were being jailed. And an unknown feisty young man in a clerical collar marched up and down the sidewalk in front of Miami 39 s federal building firing up a crowd that had gathered there.
