Overthrow of Aristide

Date: February 29, 2004 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 2004.

Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown following popular rebel uprising.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who served as president of Haiti in 1991, from 1994 to 1996, and from 2001 to 2004. He lived in exile between the 1991 military coup and 1994, and again between the 2004 coup and 2011. Aristide was a member of the Lavalas Political Organization before he founded the party Fanmi Lavalas in 1996.