Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haiti Independence Debt.
Former president of Haiti, priest (b. 1953)
🗓️ April 7, 2003 • 📅 ACF Date: 20030407
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who served as president of Haiti in 1991, from 1993 to 1994, from 1994 to 1996, and from 2001 to 2004. He was in exile after the 1991 military coup until 1994 and again after his overthrow in 2004 until 2011. Aristide was a member of the Lavalas Political Organization before he founded the party Fanmi Lavalas in 1996.
