Aristide in a sentence

This enabled the restoration of the democratically elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president. citation In October 1994, Aristide returned to Haiti to complete his term in office. citation Aristide vacated the presidency in February 1996.

But Aristide’s sudden reliance on U.S. intervention signalled a change in his loyalties.

A decade later, in 2004, Aristide was gone, flying into exile aboard a U.S. aircraft after squandering whatever goodwill he acquired.

That same Clinton had helped restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the politician and priest ousted from power by a military coup, to the democratic office of the Haitian presidency.

The U.S. government, which had intervened a decade earlier to save Aristide from a military coup, took a very different view in 2004 and looked on Philippe's coup with, at a minimum, benign indifference (some would say complicity).

U.S. troops entered Haiti unopposed and were tasked with setting the stage for a political transition back to Aristide.

This US-led and subsequent 16-year UN occupation reversed the progressive agenda implemented by the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Early in the morning on February 29, 2004, US Marines flew the learned, polyglot and popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of the country.

Jean’s father, 68-year-old Serge Aristide, was among the 1,500-plus people the British overseas territory when it was leased to the US to build a military base in Diego Garcia.

Patriots captain Aristide Mugabe (C) receives the league trophy from Rwanda Basketball Federation's president Desire Mugwiza (L) after his side beat REG 65-59 in Game 7 of the playoffs finals last Saturday.

Cyrille Bayala and Aristide Bance netted within three minutes during the first half to give Burkina Faso a 2-0 win over Guinea-Bissau in France.

In the 1990s, U.S. intervention helped bring Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first democratically elected president, back to power after he was ousted in a coup, but then supported his removal in a rebellion in 2004.

At the November 2000 elections, boycotted by the opposition, Aristide was again elected president, with more than 90% of the vote, on a turnout of around 50% according to international observers.

By 24:00 only Tonnant remained engaged, as Commodore Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars continued his fight with Majestic and fired on Swiftsure when the British ship moved within range.

Canadian police arrested Oriel Jean, Aristide's security chief and one of his most trusted friends, for money laundering.

Further instability ensued, with several massacres, including the St Jean Bosco massacre in which the church of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was attacked and burned down.

Haiti * Jean-Bertrand Aristide becomes the first democratically elected President of Haiti in 1990.

In October, Aristide was able to return.

It is reported that, on the occasion of one visit with Briand, Zaharoff surreptitiously left an envelope on Aristide Briand’s desk; the envelope contained a million francs for war widows.

It was claimed Aristide had stolen tens of millions of dollars from the country, though specific bank account documents proving this have yet to be presented.