Reply #4: The Boca Raton, Fla resident and television host & Aristide critic [View All]

Posted on Tue, Mar. 09, 2004

Aristide critic, television host named Haitian prime minister

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND DAN DEVISE

Knight Ridder Newspapers


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - (KRT) - A former Haitian foreign minister and popular South Florida Creole-language television host was selected Tuesday to become Haiti's next prime minister.

Gerard Latortue, a critic of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was chosen after two days of painstaking deliberations by a U.S.-backed "council of sages" to fill the power vacuum created Feb. 29 when Aristide resigned. Latortue will lead a transitional government that will pave the way for presidential elections.

"I am very excited to be able to do something for my country to bring together all Haitians," Latortue said in a telephone interview with The Herald. "It is time for us to forget our differences and come together for the country in this bicentennial year."

Latortue, 69, was one of three finalists for prime minister nominated by a council charged with replacing the government of the exiled Aristide. The council grilled Latortue by telephone for 2 1/2 hours Monday afternoon as he sat in his Boca Raton, Fla., home.

"I can facilitate the national reconciliation," Latortue said. "It is the most important thing today in Haiti after all the divisions we had in Aristide."

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8146760.htm
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Is this guy one of the U.S. or Republican's propaganda mouth pieces? I'd bet he is.

Is he a U.S. citizen? If so, is there any doubt but that he is a Republican?

They couldn't even get a Haitian resident and/or worker. "... as he sat in his Boca Raton, Fla., home."

hmmm, ...

Kind of reminds one of the guy they put in power in S. Vietnam. Wasn't he from New Jersey?

any more background and/or info on this guy?

If this wasn't so serious, it would be laughable.