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Haiti's army, having intervened regularly in politics for much of Haiti's independence, was disbanded in 1995 by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was deposed by a coup in 1991 and restored to power in a U.S.-backed intervention in 1994. The...
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Miami federal judge sent a former top official for Haiti’s telecom company to prison for nine years in a bribery case that legal sources say is now focusing on deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. No comments yet for this story "World...
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U.S. citizen Steven Shaw, 57, sits inside a jail cell in Port-au-Prince May 20, 2012. Haitian authorities on Sunday announced the arrest of 59 uniformed former soldiers and several alleged supporters who staged a series of protests on Friday and... View Photo »
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has a vast experience in government...was consul and Immigration Program Manager in Haiti during the coup that ousted elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Cinergy and Terra, secured discounted long-distance phone rates with Haiti Teleco due to the payoffs to Duperval. He was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy related to accepting the bribes. Duperval, who was hired as Haiti Teleco’s director of...
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Assistant U.S. Attorney James Koukios said Duperval's crimes were notable because he came from a prominent Haitian family with access to wealth and advantage. He was appointed to the Haiti Teleco position in 2003 by former President Jean-Bertrand...
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The ex-soldiers were charged with forming a rogue army and disregarding government orders to take off their uniforms, Reuters reported. Haiti’s army was disbanded in 1995 by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who said coups and human rights...
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Supporters of the Lavalas movement and its leader, Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, assemble copies of the Haitian constitution during a protest against the current government of President Michel Martelly in downtown Port-au-Prince... View Photo »
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Former Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is once again in the cross hairs of the U.S. government, this time for allegedly pocketing millions of dollars in bribes from Miami businesses...
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The Hollywood star and political activist had just heard the news that his friend, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, had been toppled in a coup backed by the US and France. "It was 28 February 2004 and I sat in...
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As the only mass-based political movement in the most unequal country in the hemisphere, Lavalas, headed by the democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was an obvious threat to the Bush administration. The denouement of the...
About Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991, again from 1994 to 1996, and then from 2001 to 2004. He was deposed twice, first in a military coup de force in September, 1991, and subsequently in a February 2004 rebellion in which former FAdH soldiers participated. He alleged... Full Article
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