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Plunging into Haiti : Clinton, Aristide, and the defeat of diplomacy /
For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military coup. Soon thousands of desperately poor Haitians started to arrive in makeshift boats on the shores of Florida. In early...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military coup. Soon thousands of desperately poor Haitians started to arrive in makeshift boats on the shores of Florida. In early 1993, the newly elected Clinton administration pledged to make the restoration of President Aristide one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy. But that fall the U.S. let supporters of Haiti's ruling military junta intimidate America into ordering the USS Harlan County and its cargo of UN peacekeepin. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-304) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604735345 1604735341 1282940821 9781282940826 9786612940828 6612940824 |