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1988-09-17

1988-Sept.: General Prosper Avril takes control of the government following a coup led by non-commissioned soldiers.

1988-Sept.: General Prosper Avril takes control of the government following a coup led by non-commissioned soldiers. Avril represented a return to the old military guard associated with the Duvalier era.

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