PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti has issued a diplomatic passport to former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, clearing the way for the return from exile of the ousted ex-leader, officials said yesterday.
Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime told Reuters the diplomatic passport was handed over via an intermediary to Aristide’s Miami-based lawyer Ira Kurzban, who was due to deliver it to Aristide.
But it remained unclear exactly when Aristide, a leftist, charismatic ex-Roman Catholic priest who became Haiti’s first freely elected