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Globe and Mail - Return of Aristide risks further election turmoil
Published: 18 March 2011
Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was poised to return to his homeland on Friday after seven years of exile, a stunning and potentially destabilizing twist that comes only 48 hours before a vote to pick the country’s next president…
“He’s a polarizing figure,†said Philip Oxhorn, a political scientist at º«¹úÂãÎè in Montreal and director of the Institute for the Study of International Development. “And that can’t be good. Why is he coming back now? Why throw a wrench into the works when the works are already fragile, so close to the election?â€