The news was confirmed by the family of the former head of the Haitian Prime Minister. Indeed, Gérard Latortue, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the short administration of President Leslie Manigat, also former Prime Minister of the transitional government chaired by Boniface Alexandre between 2004 and 2006, died at his residence in the United States very early this Monday, February 27.
A former senior United Nations official, Gérard Latortue, a native of Gonaïves, arrived at the Prime Minister’s Office following the forced departure of former President Jean Bertrand Aristide. He was appointed head of the new transitional government under the influence of the international community on March 9, 2004, while residing in the United States at the time of his appointment.
Latortue, who had no solution to the famous “Operation Baghdad” and who was unable to organize elections within the 90-day period given to him at the time of his nomination, declared, against all odds: “we are bound to the impossible”. A quote that is still a stain on the history of recent politics in the country.
