René Garcia Préval (French pronunciation: [ʁəne pʁeval]; born January 17, 1943) is a Haitian politician and agronomist who was twice President of the Republic of Haiti. He served from 7 February 1996 to 7 February 2001 and from 14 May 2006 to 14 May 2011. He was also Prime Minister from February 1991 to 11 October 1991.
Préval was born in Marmelade, Northern Haiti. He studied Business at the College of Gembloux and the University of Leuven in Bel...
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René Garcia Préval (French pronunciation: [ʁəne pʁeval]; born January 17, 1943) is a Haitian politician and agronomist who was twice President of the Republic of Haiti. He served from 7 February 1996 to 7 February 2001 and from 14 May 2006 to 14 May 2011. He was also Prime Minister from February 1991 to 11 October 1991.
Préval was born in Marmelade, Northern Haiti. He studied Business at the College of Gembloux and the University of Leuven in Belgium and also studied Biology at the University of Pisa in Pisa, Italy.
Préval's father, an agronomist also, had risen to the position of Minister of Agriculture in the government of Général Paul Magloire, the predecessor of Duvalier. Leaving Haiti because his political past presented him as a potential opponent, Preval's father found work with UN agencies in Africa.
After spending five years in Brooklyn, New York, occasionally working as a restaurant waiter, Préval returned to Haiti and obtained a position with the National Institute for...
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