This compelling photograph by Daniel Aguilar won an honorable mention in the World Press Photo 2004 contest. It was taken just after Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a one-time populist hero, was forced from power in February 2004 amid allegations of corruption and despotism during a bloody armed rebellion. The rolling of Aristide, a former Roman Catholic priest, led to a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, which is one of the world's poorest countries. This picture is a Haitian suspected of being a multiple assassin for Aristide's Lavalas party who was detained and later stoned and burned alive. Taken on March 3, 2004 by Daniel Aguilar.
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