Just as Bazin was favored by the NED, who was funding Haiti’s reform, Aristide was also favored. But he was favored by Jimmy Carter.
On December 18, 1990, Election Day, Jimmy Carter and his delegation met with Aristide.
Antoine Izméry, from a group called ‘Honor and Respect the Constitution’, denounced Aristide’s victory in the 1990 elections. Izméry claimed that Carter didn’t miss a chance through his henchmen to engage in manipulation and fraud.
Aristide was exiled to Venezuela due to the challenge of the legitimacy of the Aristide government.
In October 1991, Aristide contacted Fred Thompson to ‘lobby members of Congress and their staff, officials of the U.S. Department of State and the Office of the President of the United states on behalf of Presidente Aristide’.
On October 15, 1994, Aristide returned to Haiti to complete his term in office.