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Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown following popular rebel uprising.

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Former president of Haiti, priest (b. 1953)

Jean-Bertrand Aristide 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. As a priest, he taught liberation theology and, as president, he attempted to normalize Afro-Creole…
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2004 Haitian coup d'état

Political event in Haiti

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…
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