| Is President Martelly a US Citizen State Department Response is Ambiguous The US State Department gave an evasive response to Haïti Liberté's request for clarification of Martelly's alleged US citizenship. Senator Moïse Jean-Charles says that he has proof that Haitian President Michel Martelly is a citizen of the US and Italy Jean-Charles, who represents Haiti's North department, also said he has evidence that three other high-ranking officials in the government of Martelly's Prime Minister Garry Conille also have dual nationality. According to the senator, Foreign Minister Laurent Lamothe is Bolivian, Tourism Minister Stephanie Balmir Villedrouin is Venezuelan, and the Interior Ministry's Secretary of State Georges Racine is a US citizen. Meanwhile, Sen. Jean William Jeanty of the Nippes department said in a radio interview that he suspects Prime Minister Conille of being Canadian because Conille's passport, when inspected by senators in his nomination review process, showed no markings of his travel to Canada, where many of his close family members reside. Conille provided no other documents indicating any travel to Canada, which makes Jeanty suspect that Conille holds a Canadian passport. Sen. Jean-Charles told Haïti Liberté that he had received a copy of Martelly's foreign passport from a woman residing in the Dominican Republic named Maria Vultudes. She is allegedly a former girlfriend of Martelly and now feels wronged. |
