The Reverend Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953) was elected president of Haiti by a landslide in 1990 but then was deposed by a military coup in 1991. A radical populist, acclaimed by the masses and feared by Haiti's power elite, he remained in exile...

Sherry Stone Philadelphia Tribune, The 10-18-1994 Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns home as hero. By Sherry Stone Tribune Staff Less than 24 hours after the heroic return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically-elected president, two people were killed despite Aristide's repeated message...

"Uphold Democracy" is straight out of the thesaurus of contradictory names for American military operations, a dogeared document that contains such whoppers as "Just Cause" and "Restore Hope," of recent memory. "Disregard Democracy" would be closer to the truth. The occupation of Haiti...

Gunmen abducted 10 children after hijacking a school bus and another car Wednesday in brazen daylight assaults, according to local media reports.Haitian police spokesman Frantz Lerebours confirmed that several students were kidnapped, but said he did not know exactly how many had been taken. Police...

In a Jan. 2 story about the U.N. secretary-general's new spokeswoman, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Michele Montas' husband was killed in April 2000 after his radio show criticized then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government. The broadcasts were critical of Aristide's party, but Aristide was not...