Haiti: Successful elections (timeline)
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Timeline
- February 2007. The UN votes to extend the mandate of MINUSTAH to continue operations against armed gangs.
- October 2006. The US partially lifts an arms embargo imposed in 1991 in order to allow the government to purchase weapons for the police force, in an attempt to reduce rising levels of gun crime.
- June 2006. Jacques Edouard Alexis is appointed as Prime Minister.
- April 2006. Democratic legislative elections are held.
- February 2006. Former President René Préval is elected President in general elections.
- June 2004. UN peacekeeping troops (MINUSTAH) arrive in Haiti.
- May 2004. The government of South Africa offers asylum to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- February 2004. Anti-Aristide protesters seize control of several towns. Aristide flees. Boniface Alexandre is sworn in as Interim President.
- January 2004. Mass anti-Aristide protests are held.
- December 2003. Strikes and demonstrations leave 25 dead.
- November 2003. Two people die in clashes between the police and anti-Aristide demonstrators.
- October 2003. At least four people are killed in clashes between the police and anti-Aristide demonstrators.
- December 2001. An apparent attempted military coup leaves seven people dead.
- November 2000. Aristide is elected President. Opposition groups protest that the election and earlier legislative elections are unfair.
- January 1999. President René Préval's dispute with the legislature intensifies.
- December 1997. President Préval falls into dispute with the legislature.
- June 1997. Unrest in response to economic austerity policies leads to the resignation of Prime Minister Rosny Smarth.
- February 1996. René Préval takes office in the country’s first peaceful transfer of power from one democratically elected President to another.
- December 1995. René Préval, an associate of Aristide, is elected President.
- October 1994. Aristide returns to power.
- September 1994. The USA sends in 15-20,000 troops--the majority of a nominally international force--to restore democracy.
- July 1994. UN Security Council Resolution 940 (1994) authorises "all necessary means" to remove the military regime from power.
- July 1993. An agreement to allow Aristide to return to power is signed.
- September 1991. President Aristide is ousted in military coup. Economic sanctions are imposed by the USA and the Organisation of American States (OAS), and eventually by the UN.
- December 1990. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected President.
- March 1990. Brig.-Gen. Prosper Avril resigns as president after two attempted coups the previous year. Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes Interim President.
- September 1988. Avril ousts President Lt-Gen. Henri Namphy in a coup and pledges to establish civilian government.
- June 1988. President Leslie Manigat is ousted in military coup. Namphy reclaims the presidency, amidst a resurgence of Tontons Macoutes and supporters of the Duvaliers.
- January 1988. Leslie Manigat is elected President.
- November 1987. Planned elections are cancelled after violence thought to have been caused by members of the former notorious private army, the Tontons Macoutes.
- February 1986. Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier flees to France following civil unrest. Lt-Gen. Henri Namphy becomes President. The Tontons Macoutes are officially disbanded.
- November 1985. Four schoolchildren are shot by government soldiers, intensifying anti-government protests. .
- April 1971. Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier becomes President for life following the death of his father, President François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, the previous day.
- September 1957. After increasing instability in the preceding decade, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier is elected President, supported by his notorious private army, the Tontons Macoutes. Tens of thousands of Haitians are killed during his rule.
- August 1934. US troops withdraw but the USA maintains fiscal control until 1947.
- September 1932. The Haitian National Assembly (the legislature) rejects a US-proposed treaty of friendship on the grounds that the provision for continued US financial control until 1952 failed to free Haiti of the possibility of protracted marine occupation.
- 1915. US troops invade.
- 1804. Haiti declares independence.
