Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aristide: Let's put the text in its context. The coup had started. I was using words to answer the bullets...
...Aristide: It's not a question of if I go back, but of when. We want the coup leaders removed according to the Governors Island agreement. Only then will I return to Haiti...
...week. Instead Cedras has broken agreements and employed every kind of delay while subordinates terrorize the population. Those who can have fled the capital, hoping the countryside is safer. Like the attaches, the men at the top are determined not to lose the power they have amassed since the coup. They make big money from control of the ports and taxation, and some of them share in the drug trade that moves through Haiti at a brisk clip...
...poll last week showed that 66% of Americans oppose military intervention. Resistance in Congress is equally strong. Not everyone agrees with Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who has referred to Aristide as "a psychopath" and "a demonstrable killer," alluding to charges that have been around since the 1991 coup that Aristide was mentally ill, approved assassinations and had encouraged mobs of his supporters to kill his political foes with flaming tires called "necklaces." But there are nagging doubts about Aristide's character and ability, reinforced last week when a senior CIA official, at Helms' urging, briefed 13 Senators...
...original mission of the 19-person delegation was to support the reinstatement of Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected leader of Haiti who was ousted in September of 1991 in a military coup...