Agencies
All sources failed to specify the health condition of Duvalier, 59, who was hospitalized on Wednesday night at the Canape Vert hospital in the hills near Puerto Principe.
When asked if "Baby Doc" Duvalier was in serious condition, the partner of former president Veronique Roy, said: "I hope not." Roy was interviewed during a break in sight to the hospital. Another
Duvalier family friend, Enzo Alcindor, visited the former president and said that physicians will have more tests. He cited a cardiologist, who said that Duvalier would be discharged in a couple of days.
"did not suffer a stroke or a heart attack, thank God," says Alcindor.
Two police officers stood guard against Duvalier's room in the hospital on Thursday night. The former president
returned in January abruptly to Haiti after an exile of 25 years and the obvious physical mobility difficulties raised speculation he was ill.
Duvalier lives with policing in a village in the hills above Port au Prince.
investigating whether a judge can be imputed to "Baby Doc" a list of crimes, including corruption and torture, allegedly committed when he was "President for Life" of Haiti, a country that has been mired in poverty.
The authorities imposed restrictions on traffic to Duvalier and even saw him in a jazz concert in Pettionville, plus he has received many visitors at the house where they reside.
Roy said the employee of a court order handed Duvalier forced him to stay only in the village, although the former president intends to file an appeal.
Duvalier was overthrown during a popular revolt against his regime, which is accused of brutal and corrupt across the board.
Duvalier took power in 1971 at 19 years after the death of his father, the famous Francois Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc."
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