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1950-05-10

1950-May: President Estimé was overthrown in a military coup led by the same triumvirate that had installed him four years earlier.

1950-May: President Estimé was overthrown in a military coup led by the same triumvirate that had installed him four years earlier. The move was supported by big business and the Catholic Church, who feared the regime’s noiriste orientation.

Source  ·  p. 192 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 192