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Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian politician and former priest who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president. He was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies, and became a favorite of the pro-democracy movement protesting Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's regime and the military transition regime which followed. He won the 1991 general election on 16th December 1990, with 67% of the vote, and was was sworn as President of Haiti in on 7 February 1991.
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On 29 September 1991, he was deposed by the Haitian army in the 1991 Haitian coup d'état. The coup regime collapsed in 1994 under US pressure and threat of force (Operation Uphold Democracy) after Aristide agreed to US demands to privatize nationalized infrastructure, fire members of his cabinet, and reconstitute trade tariffs in favor of the US. Aristide was then President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004.
Aristide was again ousted in the February 2004 rebellion, in which former soldiers participated. He said the US had orchestrated a coup d'état against him in revenge for his reneging on his promise to privatize nationalized infrastructure, and received support from, among others, several members of the US Congress and Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson. Aristide was forced into exile, being flown directly out of Haiti to the Central African Republic, eventually settling in South Africa.
Aristide has attempted to return to office many times over the years. The US continues to block his return, renewing its commitment to preventing him from taking office in Haiti on 21st January, 2011, even as Baby Doc Duvalier returned to Haiti in the wake of the chaos of 2010's earthquake and cholera epidemic.
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