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Jean-Bertrand Aristide (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁtʁɑ̃ aʁistid]; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991 before being deposed in a coup d'état.
Lavalas emerged as a powerful social movement in the late 1980s, [2] and it backed Jean Bertrand Aristide's election campaign in 1990. The establishment of the Lavalas movement as a formal political party, renamed Fanmi Lavalas, took place in 1996 as a split by Aristide from the Struggling People's Party (OPL) over the question of his resumption of the three years he lost in exile following ...
Fanmi Lavalas, the political party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Fanmi Lavalas along with the party En Avant, founded by former lawmaker Jerry Tardieu, helped authored a March 9 ...
Guy Philippe (French pronunciation: [ɡi filip]; born 29 February 1968) is a Haitian former police officer, politician, and convicted money launderer, who led the 2004 Haitian coup d'état against president Jean-Bertrand Aristide after being fired from the police in 2000.
Take a look at CNN’s Fast Facts on the life of the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Aristide was forced into exile and flew to France, later visiting the United States and speaking before the United Nations. [1] An outburst of popular protest associated with the coup also claimed lives. Silvio Claude, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party and a critic of both the Duvaliers and Aristide, was murdered by a mob. Roger ...
Democratic Alliance Party: 18 Fritz Jean (born 1953) 2015–16: 26 February 2016 28 March 2016 31 days Inite: Jocelerme Privert (2016–2017) 19 Enex Jean-Charles (born 1960) — 28 March 2016 21 March 2017 358 days Independent: 20 Jack Guy Lafontant (born 1961) — 21 March 2017 17 September 2018 1 year, 180 days Democratic Movement of Haiti –
Paris — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the historic leader of France's far-right political movement, died Tuesday at the age of 96, the French news agency AFP said, citing his family.Le Pen, who had been in ...