Marc Bazin

Marc Louis Bazin
Minister without portfolio
In office March 14, 2002 – September 20, 2002
President	Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Prime Minister	Yvon Neptune
Succeeded by	Robert Ulysse
Minister of Planning and External Cooperation
In office March 2, 2001 – January 21, 2002
President	Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Prime Minister	Jean Marie Chérestal
Preceded by	Anthony Dessources
Succeeded by	Paul Duret
President of Haiti (Provisional)
In office June 19, 1992 – June 15, 1993
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Joseph Nérette
Succeeded by	Émile Jonassaint
4th Prime Minister of Haiti
In office June 19, 1992 – August 30, 1993
President	Himself
Preceded by	Jean-Jacques Honorat
Succeeded by	Robert Malval
Minister of Finance and Economy
In office February 3, 1982 – July 12, 1982
President	Jean-Claude Duvalier
Preceded by	Emmanuel Bros
Succeeded by	Frantz Merceron
Personal details
Born	(1932-03-06)March 6, 1932 Saint-Marc, Haiti
Died	June 16, 2010(2010-06-16) (aged 78) Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Political party	National Unity Party (1957-1986) Mouvement for the Instauration of Democracy in Haiti (MIDH)
Spouse	Marie-Yolaine Sam
Profession	Lawyer

Marc Louis Bazin (French pronunciation: [maʁk lwi bazɛ̃]; March 6, 1932 – June 16, 2010) was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was prime minister of Haiti appointed on June 4, 1992, by the military government that had seized power on September 30, 1991.

Life

Born in Saint-Marc, his father, Louis Bazin was a member of the elite in Artibonite. He studied law and economics at the Solvay Institute in Brussels and later worked as an economist for the World Bank from 1972 to 1976. Bazin served as Minister of Finance and Economy for six months in 1982.^[1]

He was considered to be the favorite Haitian presidential candidate of the George H. W. Bush administration and the bourgeois population of Haiti. When the country could no longer last in foreign relations as a military dictatorship and had to open the government up to free elections in 1990, Bazin was seen as a front runner if the elections were to happen before the Left in Haiti had time to reorganize.^[2]

Ultimately, Bazin received 14% of the vote, Jean-Bertrand Aristide winning the Haitian general election, 1990–1991 with 67%.^[3] After nine months, Aristide was deposed by a military coup. In June 1992, the army appointed Bazin as acting president. Washington's initial response was that he held the post illegally, but they soon warmed up to him and pressed Aristide to negotiate with the military and Bazin. With the change in administrations from Bush to Clinton, the policy changed.^[4][5] He resigned on June 8, 1993.^[6]

Bazin was also a fervent political opponent of Aristide, and ran in the 2006 election for the presidency of Haiti,^[7] but was reported to have received only about 0.68% of the vote in the 35-candidate race.

Bazin died of prostate cancer at his home in Pétion-Ville, Port-au-Prince on 16 June 2010.

References

1. R. Hall, Michael (2012). Historical Dictionary of Haiti. Scarecrow Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780810878105.
2. Haiti: best nightmare on Earth, Herbert Gold, Transaction Publishers, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7658-0733-5
3. CIA World Factbook 1992 Archived 2 October 1999 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Love and Haiti". Retrieved 27 April 2024 – via The New Republic.
5. Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the defeat of diplomacy, Ralph Pezzullo, University Press of Mississippi, 2006, ISBN 978-1-57806-860-9
6. "Star-News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
7. Haiti Elections Washington Post

External links

• Marc Louis Bazin dead at 78
• Apres Duvalier Marc Bazin A St Marc
• Marc Bazin-corruption et le regime de Duvalier on YouTube
• Jacques Despinosse and Marc Bazin cohost town hall meeting
• "Aristide's Rise and Fall", International Socialist Review, Issue 35, May–June 2004, ASHLEY SMITH