Richard Auguste Morse States citizen. His cousin Michel Martelly is a musician, right-wing Haitian politician and former President of Haiti. Richard Morse repeatedly expressed support for Martelly in the 2010 presidential elections in Haiti. By 2014, he had distanced himself from the Martelly government. Richard Auguste Morse was born in Puerto Rico in 1957. His father, Richard M. Morse, was an American academic sociologist and writer, and his mother, Emerante de Pradines (1918-2018), was a famous Haitian singer, as was his maternal grandfather, Auguste de Pradines. The family did not stay in Puerto Rico for long, and Richard grew up in the town
Jean Michel Larrasket Jean Michel Larrasket Jean-Michel Larrasket (, ) (22 May 1950 – 19 March 2018), was a French professor and engineer, as well as vice president for the French Basque Country in the Basque Studies Society. He was a promoter of several projects for the social and economic development of the French Basque Country, and he was also one of the founders of the "Eticoop" cooperative that promotes entrepreneurship in this geographical area. Larrasket's parents were from the town of Barcus in Zuberoa, and consequently Larrasket always kept a close relationship with the town. He studied engineering in Toulouse and at