SUSAN ROOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Haiti's government says President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been arrested by soldiers trying to overthrow the democratically elected government.</s>HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The first story I covered for CNN was the coup that toppled Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power in Haiti back in the early 1990s. I remember being in the streets of Port-au-Prince; there were gunfire all around -- there were gun battles going on constantly between army troops and those that were defending President Aristide.</s>ROOK: At least 26 people have been killed as soldiers fire on pro-Aristide demonstrators. Aristide took office this year as Haiti's first democratically chosen president. He promised to work for economic justice in the Caribbean country, which is the poorest in the Western hemisphere. The coup attempt is sparking rage in the Little Haiti section of Miami. Mobs set fires in the streets, burned a police car and looted stores. Protesters shouted support for Aristide and anger at the military. Monday night riot police moved in, firing tear gas. The neighborhood is home to thousands of Haitians who fled poverty and terror under Jean-Claude Duvalier and a string of preceding dictators.
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