Who’s Jean-Bertrand Aristide?

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first democratically elected president of Haiti, was born in Douyon, Haiti, and raised by the Salesian Order. He became a popular religious leader and a radical populist, winning the presidency in 1990. He was deposed in a military coup in 1991, reinstated in 1994, and re-elected in 2000 amid protests over vote-rigging. […]

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