From Patrick de Verteuil,
As Richard so rightly points out, Aristide's departure is another of those pesky - he said, she said - situations. In such cases it is best to ignore what was said and look at what was done. Aristide did agree to the Caricom brokered compromise which would have shorn him of much of his power in exchange for protection to complete his mandate. He can only have done this because he believed that without foreign protection he would be overthrown (and maybe killed) by armed rebels. What was left other than departure when the 184 refused the deal and the Americans refused to guarantee his safety?