Daniel Fignolé
Pierre-Eustache Daniel Fignolé (born November 11, 1913) is a Haitian politician.
In-Game Biography
Haiti has witnessed upon years of instability and misery, years of racialist misgovernance by which the Haitian people were subtracted in shadowy transactions. Decades of folly piled upon folly passed wherein the nation suffered, and the Dominicans and others gained advantage after advantage at the expense of the Haitian government and people alike.
It was not as if Daniel 'le Professeur' Fignolé sat by and did nothing while his country bled. A thoroughgoing liberal, he defied the Lescot and Déjoie governments day in and day out. Lescot's lot retaliated against Fignolé frequently: if he wrote denunciations, his paper was closed and he would get fired. But it had its benefit—his fiery orations gained him the popularity of the people, who held "woulo konpresè" or "steamroller" strikes against the mulattocrat tyranny.
Defeat after defeat was demoralizing but Fignolé would've been content to keep fighting even unto death. But things changed: Franck Lavaud's junta was unable to govern dictatorially, and the new President was even more frightened of a Dominican attack than he was of democrats or communists. Therefore, he turned to 'the Professor'—and convinced the remnants of the elite to accept Fignolé as president at the same time as Fignolé convinced people further left than he to settle his governance for a time.
Now the Haitian nation is united behind a single leader for a time. Armed forces, wealthy landowners, socialist revolutionaries, and the common labourer must work together until Trujillo joins Napoleon and all the other tyrants six feet under ground. By all that is good, Fignolé swears, he will not rest until freedom rings in every settlement on the island.
Trivia
- In previous game versions, Fignolé's ideology was originally National Liberalism and Big Tent before being changed to Authoritarian Developmentalism.