Editing François Duvalier (section)

===Heart attack and Barbot affair===
On 24 May 1959, Duvalier suffered a massive [[heart attack]], possibly due to an [[insulin]] overdose; he had been a [[diabetic]] since early adulthood and also suffered from [[heart disease]] and associated circulatory problems. During the heart attack, he was comatose for {{nowrap|nine hours.<ref name="Abbott 2011"/>{{rp|81–82}}}} His physician believed that he had suffered [[Brain damage|neurological damage]] during these events, harming his mental health and perhaps explaining his subsequent actions.<ref name="Abbott 2011"/>{{rp|82}}

While recovering, Duvalier left power in the hands of [[Clément Barbot]], leader of the {{nowrap|Tonton Macoute}}. Upon his return to work, Duvalier accused Barbot of trying to supplant him as president and had him imprisoned. In April 1963, Barbot was released and began plotting to remove Duvalier from office by kidnapping his children. The plot failed and Duvalier then ordered a nationwide search for Barbot and his fellow conspirators. During the search, Duvalier was told that Barbot had transformed himself into a black dog, which prompted Duvalier to order that all black dogs in Haiti be put to death. The {{nowrap|Tonton Macoute}} captured and killed Barbot in July 1963. In other incidents, Duvalier ordered the head of an executed rebel packed in ice and brought to him so he could commune with the dead man's spirit.<ref name="Lentz 2014">{{citation |mode=cs1 |last=Lentz |first=Harris M. |title=Heads of States and Governments |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA357 |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon, England |isbn=978-1-884964-44-2 |page=357 |chapter=Haiti |ol=14865945W |oclc=870226851 |orig-year=1st pub. 1994 |quote=He once ordered the head of an executed rebel packed in ice and brought to the presidential palace so he could commune with his spirit.}}</ref> Peepholes were carved into the walls of the interrogation chambers, through which Duvalier watched Haitian detainees being tortured and submerged in baths of [[sulfuric acid]]; sometimes, he was in the room during the torture.<ref name="Von Tunzelmann 2011">{{citation |mode=cs1 |last=Von&nbsp;Tunzelmann |first=Alex |author-link=Alex von Tunzelmann |title=Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nqJCFT30myMC&pg=PT236 |edition=1st |date=2011 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8050-9067-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/redheatconspirac0000vont/page/146 146] |chapter=''Cuba Libre'' §&nbsp;'Our Real Friends' |oclc=648922964 |ol=25022986M |lccn=2010037585 |quote=Peepholes were made in his torture chambers, to allow him to observe discreetly. Sometimes, he was in the room itself, while men and women were beaten, tortured, and plunged into baths of sulfuric acid. |url=https://archive.org/details/redheatconspirac0000vont/page/236 }}</ref>