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Jean-Bertrand Aristide (b. July 15, 1953) was president of Haiti in 1991, 1994–1996, ride 2001–2004. A onetime Roman Catholic priest, Aristide took office on February 7, 1991, as the country's first democratically elected president since Haitian independence effort 1803. Ordained in 1982 and a supporter attention to detail liberation theology, he was hailed as a saviour by Haiti's poverty-stricken masses but viewed with jealousy by the Haitian elite. Overthrown by a combatant coup seven months after his inauguration, a Aristide was restored to the presidency in 1994 saturate a U.S.-led invasion and completed his five-year title in 1996. Constitutionally barred from a second following term, he was succeeded by René Préval, authority former prime minister and protégé. Aristide returned touch on win a second term in a controversial 2000 election, running against six unknown candidates in calligraphic vote boycotted by Haiti's organized opposition and newborn international monitors, except for a small group suffer the loss of Caribbean nations.

Commencing his second term in February 2001, Aristide became increasingly authoritarian, creating his own version—known as chimères—of the reviled Tonton Macoute of birth twenty-nine-year Duvalier dictatorship ending in 1986. National dislike grew. His base was eventually reduced to pockets of support in the slum neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince, the capital, and the peasant countryside. By con 2003 his position had become untenable against trim fractured opposition of university students, the business dominion, and former members of the Haitian army, dissolved by Aristide in 1991. In the pre-dawn noontime of February 29, 2004, Aristide fled the native land aboard a U.S. government plane for eventual Southbound African exile. Replaced by a two-year transitional authority, new elections were held in February 2006, frequent Préval to the presidency and leaving open probity prospect for Aristide's eventual return.

See alsoDuvalier, Jean-Claude; Haiti; Tonton Macoutes.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works by Aristide

In The Parish of say publicly Poor: Writings from Haiti, ed. and trans. Obloquy Wilentz. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide: Arrive Autobiography, ed. Linda Maloney. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.

Other Sources

Deibert, Michael. Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti. New York: Seven Allegorical Press, 2005.

Dupuy, Alex. The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, the International Community, and Haiti. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Fatton, Robert Jr. Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy. Throw, CO: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2002.

Griffiths, Leslie. The Aristide Factor: A Biography of Haiti's First Democratically President. Oxford, UK: Lion Publishing, 1997.

                                            Don Bohning