Jean-Jacques Honorat (born April 1, 1931) is a Haitian politician who served as

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Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

after the 1991 coup from 1991 until 1992. Honorat came to the post after the 1991 coup which deposed President

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and his appointed Prime Minister,

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. Honorat, born on April 1, 1931, in the nation's capital, succeeded to the post under the new, provisional President,

Joseph Nérette Joseph Nérette (April 9, 1924 – April 29, 2007) was a Haitian judge and political figure. He served as the provisional president of Haiti between 1991 and 1992, part of a period in which real political authority rested with the military ...

. President Nérette and Jean-Jacques Honorat spoke out against the US-led embargos, calling it genocide. 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. 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. 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.

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