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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 ...
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 ...
Take a look at CNN’s Fast Facts on the life of the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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.
Jean Marie Chérestal (born 1947) 2000: 2 March 2001 15 March 2002 1 year, 13 days Fanmi Lavalas: Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2001–2004) 11 Yvon Neptune (born 1946) — 15 March 2002 12 March 2004 : 1 year, 363 days Fanmi Lavalas: 12 Gérard Latortue (1934–2023) — 12 March 2004 9 June 2006 2 years, 89 days Independent: Boniface Alexandre ...
The 2001 Haitian coup attempt, involving around 30–80 armed gunmen part of the disbanded armed forces, was a foiled attempt at overthrowing President Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti. Following the coup attempt, partisans part of the ruling Fanmi Lavalas party and supporters of President Aristide reacted by engaging in widespread violence ...
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.