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Latortue's Cabinet: Herard Abraham

Submitted March 17, 2004 - 7:36 pm by Erik Siegrist
Herard Abraham has been named Minister of the Interior in Latortue's cabinet. VERY interesting.

Abraham is the former general who replaced Avril as head of the armed forces after Avril's dictatorship fell. He shepherded Haiti through the 1990 elections that saw Aristide's rise, and in fact it was Abraham's quick action that thwarted Baby Doc associate Roger Lafontant's coup attempt in January 1991, just before Aristide's inaugeration.

That was over a decade ago, however. Aristide nudged him into retirement shortly after he took office, and Abraham's been living in Miami ever since. He was on the short list for the PM job Latortue got, and may have been the White House's first choice. Since the coup, he's also called for the army to be reconstituted.

Oh, and according to this Miami Herald article, "one of Abraham's relatives... is also a close associate of rebel leader Guy Philippe".

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