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Monster Essays - US Intervention In Haiti
US Intervention In Haiti
The internationally monitored elections held in 1991 were to have
ushered in a new era of democracy and the rule of law for Haiti and for
seven months it appeared like it might actually have a chance despite the
island's violent history of coups, rebellions and revolutions. In the past
190 years the tiny island nation has had twenty-one constitutions, forty-
one heads of state, seven of whom served longer than ten years and nine who
declared themselves Presidents/Emperors for life and twenty-nine of these
leaders had been assassinated or overthrown. The new era was short lived
however, for on September 30th, 1991, ....
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