Supporters Difficult To Find. Preval first took office after the popular priest turned politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide left in 1996; he was re-elected in 2006.

Preval Sworn In As Haitian President. May 14, 2006 / 6:21 PM EDT / AP ... Canadian Governor-General Michaelle Jean and the actor Danny Glover, gave him a standing ovation. ...

When friend Jean Dominique was shot to death outside his radio station in 2000, after programs highly critical of Aristide’s party, Préval met Pierre-Louis at the hospital.

Haiti's newly elected President Rene Preval has a long history that includes connections to ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Preval's own populist credentials and his previous term ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Rene Preval was sworn in Sunday as Haiti’s president for the second time, restoring legitimacy to the troubled nation’s government after more than two years of ...

As Jean-Bertrand Aristide became Haiti's preeminent political figure, he set Rene Preval on a tumultuous course that -- years later -- culminated in an election Feb. 7, unrest following charges of ...

Rene Preval, the only president ... Jean, who left Haiti with her family at age 11 to escape persecution by dictator Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, urged Haitians to work to maintain democracy.

Shut out of the Haitian presidential race, attacked everywhere for his financial mismanagement, and embroiled in a nasty celebrity feud with Sean Penn, Wyclef Jean is not exactly in a friendly ...

In 1988, two years after a popular uprising ousted Duvalier’s son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Preval returned to Haiti and opened a bakery in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Rene Preval met with presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean for more than two hours on Thursday, touching off a new round of speculation as to whether the ...