Raymond Alcide Joseph (born August 31, 1931) is a Haitian diplomat, journalist, political activist and author.
Joseph was born on August 31, 1931, in San Pedro de Macorís,[1] Dominican Republic and lived in a batey (a sugar cane worker's town),[2] whose family was originally from Les Cayes, Haiti.
In 1957, the dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was elected President of Haiti, and Joseph became increasingly uncomfortable with the government.
Joseph returned to the United States in 1961 and enrolled in the University of Chicago where he earned an MA in Social Anthropology in 1963.
[6] Joseph turned his attention to the ongoing authoritative Duvalier regime in Haiti and built a network of informants inside the presidential palace of Port-au-Prince.
He then would broadcast his intel from Brooklyn and in shortwaves in Haiti that became known as Radio Vonvon, in which anti-communist associates from California and Ronald Reagan played a role in its formation.
In an attempt to uncover the leaks inside of the palace, François Duvalier murdered 19 members of its guard and sent an assassin to New York to dispose of Joseph.