Louis Déjoie
Pierre Joseph Louis Déjoie (born February 23, 1896) is the president of Haiti.
In-Game Biography
Descendant of a French slaveholder and of President Fabre Geffrard, who threw down the Second Haitian Empire, President Louis Déjoie has not had to go far to attain his present position. Though he might protest otherwise, for the average Haitian it is clear that the Presidency was as much a hand-me-down to Déjoie as his sugar plantations and landholdings.
Déjoie was born the son of wealthy landowners; cozying up to the Establishment was in his DNA. It made all the more sense, then, that he would tie himself closely to his friend and mentor, Élie Lescot. Twenty years of mulattocratic government passed, and Déjoie joined his boss in enriching himself.
Meanwhile, things changed. Dewey's government—that had been so loyal to the Lescot presidency passed on, and things became incrementally more difficult with time. Eventually Lescot was sent out, and a successor was sitting in the office next door: need one say who it was? The answer was obvious even to the most out-of-touch diplomat's wife or to the poorest, most oppressed black citizen.
Some feel enough shame about open corruption and oligarchy where they try to deliver to the average people as a sort of quid pro quo. Not Déjoie—to him there is no use changing things from the way Lescot used to do them. He may be his own man, but he is as much an avatar of the mulattocracy as his predecessor, and just as willing to keep the levers of power in mulatto hands as Lescot was.