Prime Minister Gerard Latortue addressing community leaders of Cite Soleil on April 21, 2004. Photo by US Marine Corps via Wikipedia Commins
Prime Minister Gerard Latortue addressing community leaders of Cite Soleil on April 21, 2004. Photo by US Marine Corps via Wikipedia Commins

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A former prime minister of Haiti, Gérard Latortue, died in Florida on Monday at age 88. 

"PM Gérard Latortue served his country with dignity, passion and love," said former Prime Minister Claude Joseph. "A man of compromise, but above all a statesman who organized, as he had promised, credible and transparent elections."

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I am Juhakenson Blaise, a journalist based in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I cover the news that develops in this city and deals with other subjects related to the experience of Haitians for the Haitian Times newspaper. I am also a lover of poetry.