- Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president
| Born: | 15 July 1953 Comment | | How old is Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2024? / Age: | 70 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Cancer |
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide facts
- A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a Roman Catholic parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies to become a priest of the Salesian order
- He became a focal point for the pro-democracy movement first under Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and then under the military transition regime which followed
- He won the Haitian general election between 1990 and 1991, with 67% of the vote and was briefly president of Haiti, until a September 1991 military coup
- The coup regime collapsed in 1994 under US pressure and threat of force (Operation Uphold Democracy)
- Aristide was then president again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004
- However, Aristide was ousted in a 2004 coup d'état, in which one of his former soldiers participated
- He accused the United States of orchestrating the coup d'état against him with support from Jamaican prime minister P
- J
- Patterson, among others
- Aristide was later forced into exile in the Central African Republic and South Africa
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