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  • NAME: Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • OCCUPATION: World Leader, Priest
  • BIRTH DATE: July 15, 1953 (Age: 59)
  • EDUCATION: University of South Africa
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Port Salut, Haiti
  • Nickname: "little priest"
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

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After the Duvalier family of dictators was overthrown, Salesian Priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was chosen as president of Haiti in its first democratic election.

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide was born on July 15, 1953, in Port Salut, Haiti. In 1983, he became a priest and a champion of the poor. In 1991, after the Duvalier family of dictators was overthrown, he was chosen as President of Haiti in the nation’s first democratic election. In 2004, an American coup forced him to seek asylum in Jamaica. He was eventually welcomed by the government in South Africa.

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