Hérard Abraham

Hérard Abraham ( born July 28, 1940) is a Haitian lieutenant general, politician and former president of Haiti.

Life

As a young man came to Abraham with the army of Haiti, where he was one of the few military in the inner management circle around President Jean -Claude Duvalier later. On February 6, 1986, he was one of the supporters of the coup d'état of General Henri Namphy against Duvalier. Between March 1986 and January 1987, he belonged to the government of Namphy at first as minister of information and then from January 1987 to February 1988 as Minister of Foreign and cults. Subsequently he was a Major General Chief of Staff of the Army.

After street protests on 10 March 1990 Chairman Prosper Avril to resign and forced to flee into exile, he succeeded him as President of Haiti. Just three days later, on 13 March 1990, he joined the office of president to the President of the Supreme Court, Ertha Pascal - Trouillot, from and was the only military rulers of Haiti in the 20th century, the voluntarily renounced his power.

But Abraham remained in the rank of Lieutenant General in place of Avril Supreme Commander of Armed Forces ( Forces Armées d' Haïti). In this office he had on 7 January 1991 instrumental in the defeat of the coup attempt of Roger Lafontant. On 2 July 1991, he resigned from the post of commander in chief of the armed forces and gave this office to Lieutenant General Raoul Cedras. He then settled in Miami ( Florida), where he lived in the vicinity of the later Prime Minister Gérard Latortue.

In February 2004, he asked in a radio address from Florida incumbent President Jean -Bertrand Aristide to resign. When Aristide was forced on February 29, 2004 to resign and leave the country, the formation of a new government was necessary. Initially it was assumed that Abraham with U.S. support would be prime minister. However Latortue took over on 9 March 2004, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Abraham after his return to Haiti on 16 March 2004 and Minister of the Interior appointed for National Security. In a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Foreign Minister on 31 January 2005 again and remained in that office until June 9, 2006.