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	Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991, from 1994 to 1996, and again from 2001 to 2004.
		Aristide won the presidential election in November 2000 with 91.8% of the vote.
		Aristide told CNN that there were unidentified civilian Americans and Haitians who had forced him to resign and board the plane leaving Haiti.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide (2360 words)

	MSN Encarta - Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide, born in 1953, the first democratically elected president of the independent republic of Haiti (1991; 1994-1996; 2001-2004), who was ousted twice by armed rebellions.
		Aristide continued to organize and lead Haitians in protests against the repressive dictatorship known as “Duvalierism without Duvalier.” In 1988 the Salesian order, under pressure from the government, accused Aristide of inciting violence and expelled him from the order.
		Aristide was born in Port-Salut and as a child moved with his mother and an older sister to Port-au-Prince after the death of his father.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579854/Aristide_Jean-Bertrand.html (752 words)

	Aristide, Jean-Bertrand on Encyclopedia.com
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide, lundi à Bangui En Centrafrique, Jean Bertrand Aristide a affirmé être toujours "le président élu".
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide au palais présidentiel, jeudi Le président haïtien Jean Bertrand Aristide s'est déclaré jeudi prêt.
		Jean Bertrand Aristide mardi à Port-au-Prince Le président haïtien Jean Bertrand Aristide s'est déclaré jeudi prêt à mouri.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AristideJ1B1.asp (832 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Adieu, Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Sunday May 30, 2004
		Aristide and his wife, Mildred, flew to Jamaica on March 15 and were later joined by their two young daughters, who had been sent to New York, in the wake of an armed uprising by rebels.
		Aristide did not attempt to abuse the privilege of his stay by seeking to foment trouble or to exploit the continuing explosive political situation in his country.
		Aristide's forced exile have presented the international community with another complicated example of the difficulties of responding to the plight of political and economic refugees.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040530/cleisure/cleisure1.html (402 words)

	MSN Encarta - Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		Aristide claimed he would create half a million jobs during his second term as president, but instead economic hardship and widespread social discord occurred.
		On February 29 Aristide left Haiti and was flown to the Central African Republic.
		Aristide began to rule a severely divided nation by executive decree.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579854_2/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide.html (295 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Haiti
		Aristide did not run for a new presidential term in 1995 because of constitutional restraints, which brought his handpicked successor René Preval to power as Haiti's president for the next five years.
		Aristide asked for international help but was eventually convinced by U.S. and French officials to resign his presidency, saying it was time to open a new chapter in Haiti's history.
		In 2000 Aristide was re-elected president with 92 per cent of the vote following a campaign that was so marked by violence and intimidation that opposition candidates boycotted the election.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/haiti/aristide.html (817 words)

	BBC NEWS World Americas Profile: Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide was born in 1953 and educated at a Roman Catholic school and seminary.
		Mr Aristide stepped down a day after Washington questioned "his fitness to continue to govern" amid a crisis which, it said, was largely of his making.
		Mr Aristide, Haiti's first freely elected president in 200 years of independence, had defiantly insisted he would remain in office until his term officially expired in 2006.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3379135.stm (542 words)

	Famous Haitians
		Charlemagne was a supporter of the Lavalas political movement of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide against who the military launched a brutal coup d'etat in September 1991.
		Aristide claims he was taken out of the country against his will by representatives of the U.S. government, and that he was in fact the victim of another coup d'état.
		Aristide was educated by the Salesian Catholic order, graduated from the State University in 1979, ordained a priest in 1982, and continued his academic studies in Canada.
	haitisupport.gn.apc.org /10_fam_main.html (3138 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		Aristide was largely correct in his youth when he decried exploitation of the masses by the Duvalier regime.
		Aristide was a proponent of Liberation Theology, which attempted to weave Marxian dialectics into the Gospels in the name of helping the poor.
		Aristide's rule despotic not despite his professed adherence to the theology of liberation but precisely because of it.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=110004838 (830 words)

	Aristide / Haiti The Attempted Character Assassination of Aristide
		In short, Aristide is a devil in the eyes of the U.S. government and the mainstream press because he criticizes their plans for Haiti.
		Aristide's Deadly Rhetoric" said that he had "alarmingly reverted to the demagogic political style that scarred his Presidency before the 1991 military coup that forced him into exile.
		For example, "Aristide: An Obstacle to Haiti's Progress" was the title of a June 29, 1997 news/analysis piece by the Miami Herald's Haiti correspondent Don Bohning.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Global_Secrets_Lies/Aristide_CharacAssass.html (3441 words)

	Rise and fall of a 'Haitian Mandela' csmonitor.com
		Aristide was widely credited for his ability to turn proverbs and scripture into inspired Creole rhetoric - a rhetoric that seemed to transport him physically from the calm languor the Haitian heat causes to a perspiring and fiery physicality.
		Aristide, he says, once brought a stem of bananas to the altar during one of the 1980s military dictatorships and asked parishioners to walk up and take one.
		But Aristide rose to power because he was seen as a great hope for change - someone very different and, having won two-thirds of the vote in a 13-candidate election in 1990, someone with unprecedented public support.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0227/p01s04-woam.html (1435 words)

	Dominion Weblog: CNN Interview With Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		Ousted leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has said he is the victim of a coup d'etat in Haiti.
		Aristide, the night you left, you signed a document in which you said, "For that reason, tonight I am resigning in order to avoid a blood bath.
		Aristide, you join us from the Central African Republic, where you are staying in the capital in Bangui.
	dominionpaper.ca /weblog/2004/09/cnn_interview_with_jeanbertrand_aristide.html (1813 words)

	Afiwi.Com - Your Caribbean Online
		Aristide was an outspoken critic of the Duvalier regime and rose to national prominence through the broadcasts of his sermons on the Catholic station, Radio Soleil.
		Aristide is the founder of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy.
		Aristide shared in the lives and struggles of his parishioners and quickly became their spokesperson.
	www.afiwi.com /people2.asp?id=21 (363 words)

	Aristide Back as President of Haiti
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-inaugurated on Wednesday as President of Haiti.
		The big question is whether Aristide will be prepared to come to an agreement with the opposition, and thereby return to the democratic principles to which he adhered in 1990.
		Last May, Aristide's Lavalas Family Party won the almost all the seats in the parliamentary elections by fraudulent means.
	www2.rnw.nl /rnw/en/currentaffairs/region/centralamerica/haiti010207.html (556 words)

	African American Registry: Jean-Bertrand Aristide flees Haiti!
		On this date in 2004, President Jean-Bertrand* Aristide fled Haiti.
		Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president in 200 years of independence left the capital.
		Hundreds of angry Aristide militants armed with old rifles and pistols converged on the Haitien National Palace in Port-au-Prince.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2444/JeanBertrand_Aristide_flees_Haiti (136 words)

	Aristide in Exile
		Aristide says he realized then that what was being attempted was an "economic coup." "The hidden agenda was to tie my hands once I was back and make me give for nothing all the state public enterprises." He threatened to arrest anyone who went ahead with privatizations.
		Aristide's relationship with Washington has been deteriorating ever since: While more than $500 million in promised loans and aid were cut off, starving his government, USAID poured millions into the coffers of opposition groups, culminating ultimately in the February 2004 armed coup.
		Aristide argued that unregulated privatization would transform state monopolies into private oligarchies, increasing the riches of Haiti's elite and stripping the poor of their national wealth.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20050801/klein (1167 words)

	LRB Paul Farmer : Who removed Aristide?
		At the altar was Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the nemesis of the dictatorship and the army.
		Aristide was a proponent of liberation theology, with its injunction that the Church proclaim 'a preferential option for the poor', but liberation theology had its adversaries: members of Reagan's brains trust, meeting in 1980, declared it less Christian than Communist.
		Aristide's elevation from slum priest to presidential candidate took place against a background of right-wing death squads and threatened military coups.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v26/n08/farm01_.html (4866 words)

	Kerry Condemns Bush for Failing to Back Aristide
		Aristide last weekend to the coup four decades ago that ousted another unpopular authoritarian leader: President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam.
		Aristide's own actions and his sponsorship of the marauding gangs, Mr.
		Aristide into exile after saying the United States could not protect him.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/03/07/politics/campaign/07KERR.html?ei=5007&en=612875fff148426c&ex=1393995600&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=all (1685 words)

	The 2004 removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		During his visit, he meets with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and stresses the need for his government to comply with the structural reforms which he had agreed to implement in August 1994 (see August 1994).
		The Lavalas party of Jean-Bertrand Aristide wins the elections by a landslide, winning 15 of the 19 contested Senate seats and some 80 percent of the seats in the House of Assembly.
		Under the leadership of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian government engages in cooperative projects with Cuba and Venezuela.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /timeline.jsp?timeline=the_2004_removal_of_jean-bertrand_aristide (3285 words)

	Aristide Details Last Moments In Haiti, Calls For Stop To Bloodshed In First Address To Haitian People From Exile
		EDITOR’S NOTE: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who left a tumultuous Haiti under shadowy circumstances Feb. 29, has delivered an impassioned address “To the Haitian People and the World” by cell phone to a Haitian journalist in the United States working with a radio station in Berkeley, CA.
		Aristide spoke from the Central African Republic where he has been under a virtual house arrest in the days since he was delivered from Port-au-Prince on a U.S. plane.
		Six Haitians and Americans who know Aristide listened Friday to excerpts from the message, delivered in Creole, and confirmed the voice is that of the president, said the Flashpoints program host and Pacific News Service contributor, Dennis Bernstein (e-mail-dbernstein@igc.org), who supplied this translation exclusively to PNS.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5816.htm (1323 words)

	Enemy Ally: The Demonization of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		The number of killings dropped precipitously during Aristide's tenure: There were 53 murders in Haiti in the seven months he held office, including common non-political murders, spontaneous lynchings of criminal suspects, and killings by the military.
		Aristide has long been the target of a disinformation campaign, with CIA distortions sourced to the Haitian military being disseminated through the media by P.R. agents paid for by the Haitian elite (Extra!
		An editorial in the liberal New York Newsday (9/21/94) proclaimed: "Aristide seems bent on proving his critics' claims: that he's a fickle ideologue, a rabble-rouser with a messianic complex essentially uninterested in the pragmatic realities and possibly incompetent to be chief exec."
	www.fair.org /extra/9411/aristide-demonization.html (1329 words)

	Index
		Bringing the Aristides to Jamaica, this as members of the Bush administration from Condoleezza Rice to Donald Rumsfeld warned that Jean-Bertrand Aristide should not return to this hemisphere.
		JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE: From 1991 to 1994, the Minister of Justice, Guy Mallory, Father Mallory's son, Antoine Izmery, the people they killed [inaudible] lost their lives because they were calling for democracy, the restoration of the constitutional order for my return to Haiti.
		I asked Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide if he could talk about the killing of the justice minister in Haiti in 1993; Louis Jodel Chamblain, one of the current so-called rebels, was convicted of murdering Guy Mallory.
	www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=04/03/17/1545228 (2238 words)

	AlterNet: Jean Bertrand Aristide: Humanist or Despot?
		It was there that I came to know Jean Bertrand Aristide, not just as the president of the poorest country in the western hemisphere, but also as a father, teacher, a friend, and a surrogate dad for hundreds of parentless street kids.
		The Jean Bertrand Aristide I know is markedly different from the one being portrayed in the media.
		In his private life Aristide was very simple and, in many ways, unaffected by the power and prestige that went with being president.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=18002 (891 words)

	Jean-Bertrand Aristide -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti, urging, "No to violence, no to vengeance, yes to reconciliation." Whether it would prove to be a triumphant return remained to be seen.
		Also discusses the slave revolt which ousted Napoleon and made Haiti the first black independent nation and the various leaders that followed: Francois Duvalier ("Papa Doc") and his Tontons Macoutes, Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc"), and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
		24, 1995, Port-au-Prince, Haiti), served as president of Haiti for five months in 1994 as the puppet of the military regime that had overthrown the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in 1991.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9316526 (882 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Aristide's Loss is Haiti's Gain by David Keene
		Indeed, our embassy continually urged most of them to tone down their opposition to Aristide because, regardless of the irregularities that convinced us to cut off our financial assistance to his government, we assured them that we would not look kindly on anyone who tried to topple him.
		This was and remains a coalition of Aristide’s political opponents.
		Aristide defied his former friends and replaced his native personal security detail with hirelings from Castro’s Cuba.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12429 (808 words)

	Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		Aristide and wife Mildred are reunited with their children, 7-year-old Christine, left center, and 5-year-old Michaelle, on Friday, March 19, 2004 in Kingston, Jamaica.
		Aristide: Incident at National Palace was coup attempt
		Aristide, center, and his wife Mildred Trouillot, are welcomed
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /aristide.htm (284 words)

	2004 Ousting of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
		This project seeks to determine the extent to which foreign governments and non-governmental organizations had a hand in the February 29, 2004 ousting of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
		The events summarized in the timeline address a wide range of issues, from Haiti& IMF-mandated Structural Adjustment Program to evidence of covert foreign support for the paramilitary forces which wreaked havoc in the weeks prior to Aristide’s alleged “resignation.” But at this time, it is far from being a complete account.
		A more detailed account of the rebel forces’ advance towards Port-au-Prince between January 2004 and the day Aristide was escorted out of Haiti in a US-chartered jet.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /project.jsp?project=aristide_project (250 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haiti: Books
		Jean Bertrand Aristide captures that magnificently in "In The Parish of the Poor".
		Aristide calls out to his readers to take heed and see Haiti as a land of people with pride, love, and faith.
		An excellent read- a powerful book- with actual sermons given by Aristide at the end- that might change the reader's view of the society we live in and his/her place in it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0883446820?v=glance (1096 words)

	Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (Harpers.org)
		President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled Haiti as a rebel army of thugs and former death-squad members approached Port-au-Prince, which was being terrorized by thugs loyal to the president; President Bush sent in the Marines to prepare for a multinational peacekeeping force.
		Jean-Bertrand Aristide was inaugurated as president of Haiti; the opposition, which believes the election was rigged, formed an alternative government.
		This is Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, a human being and a political leader.
	www.harpers.org /Aristide.html (711 words)

	Democracy Now! EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS:PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS KIDNAPPED' 'TELL THE WORLD IT IS A COUP'
		They know that President Aristide was not allowed to request asylum from South Africa or anybody else because he was not allowed to make any phone calls before they left Haiti, during the flight, and beyond.
		Congress member Waters has just spoken with President Aristide who she says said he was kidnapped and is now with his wife and surrounded by security in the Central African Republic.
		I did not have that conversation with President Aristide but we must meet with him and we must talk with him and be prepared to protect him.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/03/01/1521216 (2720 words)

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