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1990-Dec.-16

1990-Dec.-16: Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president in Haiti’s first free democratic elections.

1990-Dec.-16: Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president in Haiti’s first free democratic elections. His landslide victory represented a massive popular mandate for social reform and political change.

Source Girard, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, 141; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, xi