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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 ...
Take a look at CNN’s Fast Facts on the life of the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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.
General elections were held in Haiti between 16 December 1990 and 20 January 1991. The presidential election, held on 16 December, resulted in a victory for Jean-Bertrand Aristide of the National Front for Change and Democracy (FCND).
Jean-Bertrand Aristide: October 12, 1994 – January 20, 1996 Aristide, who left the Catholic priesthood in 1994, was unmarried until 1996 [2] [3] Mildred Trouillot (1963–present) Jean-Bertrand Aristide: January 20, 1996 – February 7, 1996 President Aristide married Trouillot, a Haitian American, on January 20, 1996 [3] Guerda Benoît (1963 ...