Skip to content
🇭🇹   BETA  ·  6,173 entries published  ·  93,827 entries away from the 100k milestone.       🇭🇹   BETA  ·  6,173 entries published  ·  93,827 entries away from the 100k milestone.       
You are offline — some content may not be available
1988-Jun.-20

1988-Jun.-20: General Henri Namphy overthrows President Manigat and resumes direct military control.

1988-Jun.-20: General Henri Namphy overthrows President Manigat and resumes direct military control. This coup underscored the army’s role as the final arbiter of political life in post-Duvalier Haiti.

Source Trouillot, Trouillot Remixed, 412; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, xxviii