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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Nov 19, 2015
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• Category : General News
• Description : The New York Times
  
  Sweet Micky For President
  By NEIL GENZLINGERNOV. 19, 2015
  
  Photo: Michel Martelly, a Haitian pop star who turned to politics and succeeded, in a scene from “Sweet Micky for President.” Credit Prasperity Group/Ignite Channel, OnSlot Productions
• Website : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/movies/review-sweet-micky-for-president-how-a-pop-star-came-to-lead-haiti.html?_r=1

Overview

• One of the decade’s odder political stories is revisited, without much illumination, in “Sweet Micky for President,” a documentary by Ben Patterson about how the current president of Haiti, Michel Martelly, came to win that office. It’s a friendly and shallow look at the ascendance of a pop-star-turned-politician whose presidency, now more than four years along, has hardly been a panacea.
  
  Mr. Martelly was a popular singer for two decades before deciding, seemingly on a whim, to run for president in 2010. The film tells the story somewhat obliquely, from the perspective of Pras Michel, once a member of the Grammy-winning group the Fugees, who is a producer of the film and here takes credit for persuading Mr. Martelly to run.
  
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