Jean-Jacques Honorat

Jean-Jacques Honorat
Jean-Jacques Honorat
3rd Prime Minister of Haiti
	In office; October 11, 1991 – June 19, 1992
President	Joseph Nérette (provisional)
Preceded by	René Préval
Succeeded by	Marc Bazin
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship
	In office; October 15, 1991 – December 16, 1991
President	Joseph Nérette
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Jean-Robert Sabalat
Succeeded by	Jean-Robert Simonise
Personal details
Born	April 1, 1931; Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Yvelie Honorat
Occupation	Ex-Prime Minister of Haiti
Profession	Juris Doctor, Agronomist

Jean-Jacques Honorat (born April 1, 1931) is a Haitian politician who served as prime minister of Haiti after the 1991 coup from 1991 until 1992.[1] Honorat came to the post after the 1991 coup which deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his appointed Prime Minister, René Préval. Honorat, born on April 1, 1931, in the nation's capital, succeeded to the post under the new, provisional President, Joseph Nérette. President Nérette and Jean-Jacques Honorat spoke out against the US-led embargos, calling it genocide.[2] Like many others on the list of 17 since 1988, Honorat's stint would be short-lived and terminated after corrupt military interference. He spent eight months in office before resigning. He also served with honor from October 1991 to the end of the year as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship.

Before stepping into this role, Jean-Jacques Honorat had been a human rights activist for 40 years, while also working as a professor of law and human rights.[2] Philanthropist and humanitarian was accused of having ties to Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier, even past the obvious, as Jean-Jacques Honorat had served as Minister of Tourism from 1958 to 1961, Honorat had stated that their families were, indeed, close and in fact, there were family ties between them. However, in a December 1991 phone interview with correspondents from Washington D.C.'s EIR, he also stated that he quickly became an activist after Duvalier staged the 1961 coup, which was why he left the post of tourism director. The rift between families would lead to Honorat's eventual exile to New York after Francois' son Jean-Claude Duvalier unjustly expelled him from the country in 1980.[3]

Jean-Jacques Honorat would continue to be a successful and favored personality on the diplomatic scene. His degrees in agronomy and law, along with his fluency in French, Spanish, Creole, Mandarin, German, and English served him well throughout his career. He is an accomplished author after publishing his book Le Manifeste Du Dernière Monde in 1980.

References

Coupeau, Steeve (2008). The history of Haiti. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 115. ISBN 978-0-313-34089-5.
Scanlon, Dana (December 20, 1991). "Interview: Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Jacques Honorat" (PDF).
Population, United States Congress House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Census and (1985). Demographic Impact of Immigration on the United States: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... U.S. Government Printing Office.

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[1] Coupeau, Steeve (2008). The history of Haiti. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 115. ISBN 978-0-313-34089-5.

[:0-2] Scanlon, Dana (December 20, 1991). "Interview: Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Jacques Honorat" (PDF).

[3] Population, United States Congress House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Census and (1985). Demographic Impact of Immigration on the United States: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... U.S. Government Printing Office.