On this date in 2004, Haiti's immensely popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was abducted by US marines and replaced with a puppet leader, the World Bank consultant Gérard Latortue, who was living in the US at the time.
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Representatives from Canada, the US and France met in Meech Lake, Quebec, throughout January and February 2003 and hatched a plan to get rid of democratically-elected President Aristide.
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The imperialist triad funded, armed, and trained an army that invaded from the Dominican Republic in early February, 2004. By February 28 they had made their way to Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.
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That night US marines broke into Aristide's house and kidnapped the president in the middle of the night. They flew him to the Central African Republic and installed LaTortue as so-called prime minister.
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The usurper was immediately recognized by US, Canada and France's governments. Many Caribbean countries, including Cuba, Venezuela, and Jamaica, did not recognize the puppet leader. In 2006, LaTortue fled back to Miami.
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