Charles-Henri Jean-Marie Baker (born June 3, 1955) is a Haitian industrialist and former Haitian Presidential Candidate. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: Baker was a candidate for president in Haiti's 2006 election. The 2006 Elections in Haiti, to replace the interim government of Gérard Latortue put in place after the 2004 Haiti rebellion, were delayed four He initially billed himself as an independent and allied himself with the Komba de Chavannes Jean Baptiste and Evans Lescouflair party. Baker is a former member of the Group of 184 (Groupe 184), a loose federation of business leaders, church officials and NGOs associated with the U.S. government-funded USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, opposed to the Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. The Group of 184 is a group of Haitian individuals and organizations in a variety of sectors ranging from business and the economy to media and education who are united in opposition The federal government of the United States is the central United States Governmental body established by the United States Constitution. The United States Agency for International Development (or USAID) is the United States federal government organization responsible for most non- military The National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, is a US Non-profit organization that was founded in 1983 to promote Democracy by providing cash Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15 1953 is a former Roman Catholic Priest who was President of Haiti in 1991 again from 1994 to 1996 and then Baker was widely considered the candidate of choice of Haiti's middle and upper classes as well as the favored candidate of the international business community; political groups backing Baker were heavily financed by foreign aid agencies such as USAID and he played a role in the 2004 Haitian coup d'état. Aid (from the french word aide, also known as international aid, overseas aid, or foreign aid, especially in the United States) is The 2004 Haiti coup was a regime overthrow that happened as the result of conflicts fought for several weeks in Haiti during February 2004 He was also the only presidential candidate to gather over 108,000 signatures necessary to run as an independent. However, he was defeated in the election by Lespwa candidate René Préval. Fwon Lespwa is a Haitian political coalition headed by René Préval, who served as president from 1996 to 2001 René Garcia Préval ( IPA: /ʀəne pʀeval/ (born January 17, 1943) is a Haitian politician and Agronomist who has been
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Early life
Baker was born in Port-au-Prince. PortAuPrinceTapTapjpg|right|thumb|270px|A taptap (shared taxi in central Port-au-Prince His father Edouard Baker was a prominent engineer and agronomist and a well-known soccer player. An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering. Agronomy is the science and technology of using plants for food fuel feed and fiber Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered His mother Louise Barranco, a Businesswoman, was the founder of the first supermarket chain in Haiti. Customer divider barjpg|thumb|In supermarkets sellers periodically change prices for classes of goods in response to market conditions rather than negotiating the price of each good Baker has two brothers and three sisters.
After completing his elementary education in Haiti, he traveled to the United States. Primary education is the first stage of Compulsory education. In 1972 he graduated from Redondo Union High School. Redondo Union High School is a public high school in Redondo Beach California. He later attended Saint Leo University in Florida, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration in 1976. Saint Leo University is a private non-profit Roman Catholic university located in Saint Leo Florida, near San Antonio, Florida, Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of Higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing In Business, administration consists of the performance or management of business operations and thus the making or implementing of major decisions In 1975, he married Marie Florence Apaid, sister of André Apaid. André Apaid, Junior is the leader of the Group of 184 in Haiti, the civil society movement which forced Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power in 2004 He has four children and one grandchild.
Business career
Baker began his business career as a manager at the age 21 in his family-owned and -operated supermarket chain. When his father became ill, he took over the family-owned 90-acre farm Habitation Dujour, which grew sugarcane, banana, and tobacco. Sugarcane ( Saccharum) is a genus of 6 to 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation of tall perennial grasses (family Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae For the fruit see Banana. For other meanings see Banana (disambiguation. Tobacco is an Agricultural product recognized as an addictive drug processed from the fresh Leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. Eventually, the land expanded another 120 acres which made it the largest flue-cured tobacco farm in Haiti, with more than 200 acres. A flue is a duct, Pipe, or Chimney for conveying Exhaust gases from a Fireplace, Furnace, Water heater, Simultaneously, from 1982 to 1985 he worked with the tobacco growers of Haiti through the Comme Il Faut Company, where he held the position of Assistant to the Leaf Growing Manager.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Baker began to purchase garment factories. The Textile industry (also known in the United Kingdom and Australia as the Rag Trade) is a term used for industries primarily concerned with the design These factories, which have been called sweatshops by labor rights and human rights organizations, employ hundreds of Haitians who are paid very little and have no benefits. A sweatshop is a working environment with very difficult or dangerous conditions usually where the workers have few rights or ways to address their situation Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of Legal rights and claimed Human rights having to do with Labor relations between Workers Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled Baker sells the garments produced in these factories to major corporations such as Sara Lee, Walmart and K-Mart. Wal-Mart Stores Inc (or Walmart as written in its new logo is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores Kmart (sometimes spelled as " K-Mart " is a chain of department stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U In 2000, he joined the Association des Industries d’Haïti as member and a year later became Vice Chair.
2006 presidential election
In August 2005, Baker announced his intentions to run for the president of Haiti in the elections originally planned for November 2005 but later moved to February 2006. The 2006 Elections in Haiti, to replace the interim government of Gérard Latortue put in place after the 2004 Haiti rebellion, were delayed four The President of Haiti is the Head of state of the Republic of Haiti.
Amid confusion at polling places and voting irregularities, Baker and his Respect coalition received 8. Respect ( Respè) is a Political party in Haiti. In the presidential elections of 7 February 2006, its candidate Charles 24 percent of the vote, losing to René Préval.
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