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U.S. deports former coup leader, convicted drug trafficker Guy Philippe back to Haiti
Guy Philippe, a rebel leader in Haiti's Resistance Front, is shown in Gonaives, Haiti, on Feb. 19, 2004. - PETER ANDREW BOSCH/Miami Herald/TNS

U.S. deports former coup leader, convicted drug trafficker Guy Philippe back to Haiti

One of Haiti’s most controversial figures is back in his troubled homeland after being deported from the United States on Thursday.

Guy Philippe, the former Haitian police commander who led a rebellion in 2004 that overthrew President Jean Bertrand Aristide and then spent nearly a dozen years evading U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, arrived aboard a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight along with more than a dozen others deportees.

The flight departed from Alexandria, Louisiana, at 5:57 a.m. and arrived in Haiti at 9:49 a.m.

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