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minister, hold new legislative elections and serve out the remainder of his term with severely limited powers. Aristide accepted the deal immediately, as did France and the US. The CD refused it just as immediately and then somehow managed to ‘persuade’ its imperial patrons to follow suit, leaving Aristide with a choice between exile or civil war.
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Washington Post, ‘the CIA should train and equip Haitian officers exiled in the neighbouring Dominican Republic so they could stage a comeback themselves’." With the CD's inability to develop sufficient public support among the Haitian poor, reaching just 8% in March 2002 opinion polls, the electoral route for CD was not promising.
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Leading figures in the Convergence Démocratique made no secret of their intentions at the time of Aristide’s reinauguration as president in February 2001; they openly called for another US invasion, ‘this time to get rid of Aristide and rebuild the disbanded Haitian army’. Failing that, they told the
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Between June 2000 and February 2004, the CD rejected each FL offer of new elections right through to the final attempt at a peaceful resolution to the conflict, a CARICOM-brokered proposal approved by the OAS in mid-February 2004, whereby Aristide would accept one of his opponents as his prime
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in Congress, and especially the International Republican Institute ... The International Republican Institute did all it could to urge the DC to build a national electoral constituency that could rival Aristide’s FL party at the
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Dupuy, Alex (April 2005). "From Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Gerard Latortue: the unending crisis of democratization in Haiti".
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Washington Post, 2 February 2001. - cited in Hallward (2004)
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political movement created in summer 2000 in opposition to
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Haitian
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Fanmi Lavalas
International Republican Institute
Bush administration
Republicans
Peter Hallward
2004 Haitian coup d'état



doi
10.1525/jlca.2005.10.1.186


Hallward, Peter
"Option zero in Haiti"
New Left Review
Category
Politics of Haiti

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