Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.

Prosper Avril

Haitian political figure (born 1937)

Matthieu Prosper Avril is a Haitian political figure who was President of Haiti from 1988 to 1990. A trusted member of François Duvalier's Presidential Guard and adviser to Jean-Claude Duvalier, Lt. Gen. Avril led the September 1988 Haitian coup d'état against a transition…