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“I refused to believe it. I cannot believe it,” said Delatour Préval, who was in Coral Gables when her husband died, though she had spoken to him three times Friday morning. “He was in excellent humor.”
Préval’s unexpected death shocked not just family and friends but also a broken nation that believed he still had unfinished business. And it came as Haitians and historians are still trying to define his role in history. Through two presidential terms, 1996-2001 and 2006-2011, Préval brought a steady hand to Haiti in some of its most difficult periods.
Though he was criticized for his handling of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake and for failing to strengthen political institutions, he was lauded in his second term for stepping out of the shadow of his former political mentor, ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and bringing back stability. Early on, he gave the OK to United Nations peacekeepers to aggressively disarm pro-Aristide slum gangs, and he worked to build trust and consensus in a country decimated by years of violence and political turmoil.
Read more here: Rene Préval, two-time president of Haiti, dead at 74
At least the Clintons had enough class to "remember" him. Too bad they can't manage to make an apology to the Haitians for screwing their elections.
Préval’s unexpected death shocked not just family and friends but also a broken nation that believed he still had unfinished business. And it came as Haitians and historians are still trying to define his role in history. Through two presidential terms, 1996-2001 and 2006-2011, Préval brought a steady hand to Haiti in some of its most difficult periods.
Though he was criticized for his handling of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake and for failing to strengthen political institutions, he was lauded in his second term for stepping out of the shadow of his former political mentor, ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and bringing back stability. Early on, he gave the OK to United Nations peacekeepers to aggressively disarm pro-Aristide slum gangs, and he worked to build trust and consensus in a country decimated by years of violence and political turmoil.
Read more here: Rene Préval, two-time president of Haiti, dead at 74
At least the Clintons had enough class to "remember" him. Too bad they can't manage to make an apology to the Haitians for screwing their elections.
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