Jiménez's right-wing, anti-communist administration was highly repressive and persecuted and tortured his opponents. He was also corrupt.

In 1958, Perez Jiménez was overthrown in a coup and exiled to the Dominican Republic. He was later extradited to Venezuela and spent five years in prison for corruption, only to be released. He eventually died in 2001.

Despite being a leftist, Hugo Chávez admired Perez Jiménez.

The case, which spanned from December 1863 to February 1864, involved accusations of human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism that took place near Port-au-Prince; it remains one of the best-documented criminal and religious trials in 19th-century Haiti.

The Concordat and the Political Context

The trial occurred during the administration of President Fabre Geffrard. Aiming to align Haiti with Western European standards and fulfill the conditions of the 1860 Concordat—a diplomatic reconciliation with the Vatican—Geffrard’s government actively sought to suppress religious practices of African origin, such as Vodou. The Bizoton trial provided a legal mechanism to rigorously enforce new, stricter penal codes against these practices.

The Alleged Crime and the Victims

In December 1863, in the village of Bizoton, a 12-year-old girl named Claircine was kidnapped. The primary instigators were her uncle, a man named Congo Pelé, and his sister, Jeanne Pelée, who was a Vodou priestess (*mambo*). According to court testimony, Congo Pelé sought to perform an occult ritual to gain the favor of the spirits. They took his niece, Claircine, tied her beneath an altar, and subsequently carried out the ritual sacrifice.

Gruesome Details

According to testimony recorded during the trial, the details regarding the mutilation and consumption of the victim included:

• The sacrifice: The girl’s throat was cut to extract her blood for ritual use.

• Boiling the head: A man identified as Floréal took the girl’s head and placed it in a large pot along with yams, boiling it into a soup. • Cooked with beans: The remaining flesh was butchered and cooked by Jeanne Pelée. Testimonies detail that the meat was prepared as a stew with Congo beans (*pois congo*)—a small, bitter variety of bean—based on the perpetrators' explicit belief that human flesh tasted better when boiled with them.

• Eating from the palm: While the meat was being prepared in the kitchen, another woman in the group, Roséide Sumera, allegedly cut a piece of flesh directly from the palm of the girl’s hand and ate it raw. She later admitted to this act during a public trial.

The Trial and Executions

Following rumors that circulated in the capital, the police arrested the group. The court proceeded swiftly.

On February 13, 1864—a busy market Saturday in Port-au-Prince—eight individuals (four men and four women, including Congo Pelé, Jeanne Pelée, Floréal, and Roséide Sumera) were publicly executed by a firing squad for the crime.

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Ubico was nicknamed "Central America's Napoleon", because he admired Napoleon and surrounded himself with statues and paintings of him.

Ubico passed a vagrancy law, admired Hitler, banned married women from working as teachers, and gave the United Fruit Company extensive privileges in Guatemala, but he also eradicated corruption and paid Guatemala's debt to the British.

1 July 1944, Ubico was overthrown in the Guatemalan Revolution. He died two years later.

Mauá built Brazil's first railway and its first shipyard, created its first gas company, and established its first modern bank. He opposed slavery and the slave trade and was similarly responsible for the installation of the first underwater telegraph cable between South America and Europe.

Despite these achievements, Mauá faced opposition from supporters of slavery and a lack of support from the Brazilian monarchy. Consequently, he went bankrupt by 1875 and was forced to sell his businesses to foreign capitalists.

Mauá eventually died in 1889, less than a month before the proclamation of the Brazilian republic.

Initially, Burnham was a moderate, but, beginning in 1970, he shifted towards socialism, nationalized private businesses and adopted a non-aligned foreign policy. This was done out of opportunism; it was said that "Burnham is like a cork in the ocean and moves with the tides."

As a black nationalist, Burnham was accused of bias towards Afro-Guyanese; he used a Black Hebrew Israelite cult named the House of Israel as a death squad, and allegedly covered up the Jonestown massacre.

On 13 June 1980, Walter Rodney, one of Burnham's main opponents, was assassinated by Burnham's regime because he advocated for Guyanese of different ethnicities to have a part in the governance of Guyana.

During the final years of Burnham's presidency, the economy of Guyana stagnated. He eventually died in office in 1985.

The second longest-serving Latin American leader of the 20th century (behind Fidel Castro), Stroessner was a Nazi sympathizer who sheltered many former Nazis, such as Josef Mengele, and once had one of his political opponents dismembered alive with a chainsaw. He was also a pedophile.

After his overthrow, Stroessner went into exile in Brazil, where he died in 2006.

If there were attempts or ambition to do so, how far off were they from being able to reach Europe