One of the key figures in the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004 has returned to Haiti. US assistant secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega was in Haiti for a 24-hour visit. As he arrived, the US ambassador James Foley said Washington is working on a plan that will allow Haiti to buy more weapons. Foley said the US was finding ways to work around the 14-year-old arms embargo that the US imposed on Haiti. Human rights groups blasted the move saying the Haitian police and reconstituted army have carried out summary executions and other violence against Aristide supporters. During his time in office, Aristide disbanded the Haitian armed forces which he said had become death squads.