Jean-Bertrand Aristide

(noun)

A Haitian former Catholic priest and politician who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president (1990-1991) until a September 1991 military coup; he was then President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004, until ousted again in a February 2004 coup.

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  • Clinton and Foreign Policy

    • In September 1991, a military coup led by Lieutenant General Raoul Cédras ousted Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who escaped to the United States.
    • Cédras agreed and surrendered the government to Aristide.
    • Cédras and his top lieutenants left the country in October, and just days later, U.S. troops escorted Aristide into the capital.