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Jeb Sprague-Silgado: “A Who’s Who of Supporters of Guy Philippe’s Paramilitary Insurgency in Haiti”

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Jeb Sprague-Silgado, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti, has researched the lineage behind the 2004 overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and has written a piece, naming some of the names in Haïti Liberté.

“Readers of my 2012 book Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti will have learned about individuals involved in supporting the paramilitary insurgency that culminated in the Feb. 29, 2004 overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Below I have put together a compendium of the constellation of actors which supported the FLRN paramilitaries (Front pour la libération et la reconstruction nationales) in the events leading up to the coup d’etat. Some of these groups were made up of just a handful of individuals. Others contained hundreds that lent support at one time or another. I have broken up these sectors into ten subgroups as follows…”

Read the article at Haïti Liberté

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