found: Le pouvoir Lavalas, 1997:p. 15 (René Préval was elected president of Haiti, Dec. 15, 1995)
found: L'énigme Préval, 2011
found: Wikipedia, Sept. 26, 2013(René Garcia Préval (b. Jan. 17, 1943, Port-au-Prince, Haiti), Haitian politician and agronomist who was twice President of the Republic of Haiti, from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2006 to 2011; his presidencies were marked by domestic tumult and attempts at economic stabilization; since the Haiti earthquake, 2010, President Préval has been criticised at home and abroad for his allegedly weak disaster response)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 6, 2017(in obituary published Mar. 3: René Préval; b. René Garcia Préval, Jan. 17, 1943, Port-au-Prince; raised in Marmelade; d. Friday [Mar. 3, 2017], Port-au-Prince, aged 74; former president of Haiti who led his nation out of turmoil after a coup but stumbled through the trauma of the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded in the Americas, the earthquake of 2010)