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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 ...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953) — 12 October 1994 7 February 1996 1 year, 118 days Struggling People's Organization: President [q] 45 René Préval (1943–2017) 1995: 7 February 1996 7 February 2001 5 years Fanmi Lavalas: President (44) Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953) 2000: 7 February 2001 29 February 2004 : 3 years, 22 days Fanmi ...
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.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1991) 3 Jean-Jacques Honorat (1931–2023) — 11 October 1991 19 June 1992 252 days Independent: Joseph Nérette (1991–1992) 4 Marc Bazin (1932–2010) — 19 June 1992 30 August 1993 1 year, 72 days Movement for the Instauration of Democracy in Haiti Marc Bazin (1992–1993) 5 Robert Malval (born 1943) 1993: 30 ...
A coup d'état in Haiti on 29 February 2004, following several weeks of conflict, resulted in the removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. On 5 February, a rebel group, called the National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti, took control of Haiti's fourth-largest city, Gonaïves.
PARIS(Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the ...