Word: bertrand
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...could scarcely blame them. When Haiti tried something like this in 1987, marauding army-backed death squads attacked voters with guns and machetes. The Cap Haitien workers knew, of course, that much had changed since then. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was returned last October by the U.S. military after spending three years in exile. The military officers who ousted him had been driven into an exile of their own. And now a new civil society was taking root, nurtured by 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, a host of relief groups and $1.2 billion in foreign...
...show featured a screening of the 1992 documentary "Killing the Dream," which examines Haitian reactions to the seizure of power by the military regime led by Gen. Raoul Cedras, and shows the popular support for the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was restored to power last year...
...Port-au-Prince to oversee the transfer of authority for the country's security from American troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force. But what should have been a foreign-policy triumph for the Administration was marred by the assassination three days earlier of a leading opponent of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's--and suspicions that a Cabinet-level Haitian minister was linked...
...mission there a success. "We celebrate the restoration of democracy to your country," Clinton told the crowd, whose front ranks consisted of children who giggled at several presidential attempts at Creole. Right on cue, as Clinton spoke, a white dove landed on the podium between him andHaitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (Aristide's staff had released a whole flock of his trademark peace symbols in the yard.) As Clinton declared that the six-month U.S. mission had been accomplished "on schedule and with remarkable success," U.S. and U.N. flags were exchanged to mark the transition to a force...
Fourteen FBI agents arrived inHaitithis morning and rushed to a Port-au-Prince boulevard where an outspoken political opponent of President Jean Bertrand Aristide was machine-gunned to death yesterday. The reason for the haste: President Clinton is due to arrive Friday to declare Haiti safe enough for U.S. troops to hand over security duties to a multinational U.N. force. Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that...