Daniel Guay () was President of Haiti from 6 December 1950, succeeding Paul Magloire.
Biography[]
Daniel Guay was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and he served in the Haitian Army as a non-commissioned officer. Guay rose to the rank of Major in 1946, and he formed an officers' cabal that wanted to overthrow the USSR-leaning government. On 6 December 1950, in the 1950 Haitian coup d'etat, Guay seized power with the help of the military, and he became a dictator at the head of a military junta that included Francois Durce and some other Haitian officers. Haiti moved away from its USSR leaning and aligned itself with the United States, and Guay's dictatorship repressed communist groups and liberal movements. Haiti rearmed in the Révolution de Réarmement, becoming a key US ally in the Caribbean Sea in the fight against communism during the Cold War.