For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military ...

In this riveting memoir, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Catholic priest who became Haiti's first democratically-elected president, recounts his life--from his early education ...

This compelling book offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle for democracy in Haiti, set in the context of the tumultuous rise and fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Swept ...

Political systems seek to bring about improvement in people's lives; but politics in Haiti has only made the Haitians' lives worse. The notion that politics has failed the ...

There, U.N. negotiators shuttled between the temporary residences of President Aristide and General Cedras in order to produce the agreement that contained inexplicable ...