About this picture: Jean-Bertrand Aristide was born July 15, 1953. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest, who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president.Jean-Bertrand Aristide was briefly President of Haiti in 1991, prior to a September 1991 military coup, and was President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was then ousted in a February 2004 rebellion, in which former soldiers participated.
He accused the U.S. of orchestrating a coup against him, and was forced into exile, eventually settling in South Africa.
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