Former Haitian President Rene Preval has died at the age of 74.

Rene was the first leader in Haiti's history to win a democratic election, serve a full term and peacefully hand power to a successor,, he died on Friday, February 3. 20017 after falling unconscious at his home. The cause of death for the two-time president was not made public. His sister, Marie-Claude Calvin, said an autopsy would determine the cause. Preval was a central figure in Haitian