ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A Haitian-born U.S. businessman may run for president, Haiti's highest court ruled Tuesday in a decision the would-be candidate said marked a turning point in the roles expatriate Haitians could play in their homeland.
The elections will be the first since a February 2004 revolt toppled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first democratically elected president in the country that has suffered decades of civilian and military dictatorships and coups. <snip>
The provisional Electoral Council had ruled that Dumarsais Simeus, owner of a food services company in Mansfield, Texas, could not run in the election because he is a U.S. citizen.
But the Supreme Court's five judges ruled he could run because the electoral commission had not produced documents to prove Simeus had given up his Haitian citizenship, the court's chief clerk Andre Bignon said. <snip>
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Haitian-born Dallas-Fort Worth businessman Dumarsais Siméus has been cleared to run for president of Haiti. <snip>
Siméus grew up on a farm in Pont-Sondé, Haiti. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from Howard University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
He has since held international leadership positions at various companies including Atari Inc., KB Homes and PromoCapital, the first investment banking firm in Haiti. He also served as president of TLC Beatrice Foods, a $2 billion multinational corporation with operations in more than 25 countries. <snip>
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