Haiti Summons the French Ambassador After President Macron, Losing His Cool, Calls Some Haitians ‘Total Morons’
France’s president, in an unscripted moment, puts a unique spin on the firing of the Haitian prime minister.

President Macron, control yourself. In an off the cuff remark made on Thursday during the course of a visit to Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Macron called the Haitians who “fired” their prime minister “complete morons” for doing so. He spoke in response to a question from a passerby about the volatile state of affairs in the troubled Caribbean nation.
Haiti’s former and briefly-serving prime minister, Garry Conille, a physician, was fired earlier this month after just four months on the job. The impoverished country has been caught up in a rising tide of gang violence.
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