Haiti's new prime minister arrives to start rebuilding

Thursday, March 11, 2004

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Gerard Latortue, a former U.N. official chosen to lead Haiti out of political turmoil, returned from the United States Wednesday to begin the arduous task of building a government. Loyalists of the former president said they wouldn't accept him.

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