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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鈥檚 next president鈥�
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