Panama Denies Haitian Extradition Request for Former Military Ruler

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Friday, May 1, 1998
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
14
Issue: 
5
188-189
Abstract: 
On April 10, 1998, Panamanian Vice Foreign Minister Marcel Salamin announced that his Government denied a Haitian Government request to extradite former head of state Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras because Haiti has not signed the extradition treaty cited in its request and because Haitian authorities had not properly submitted or finished the paperwork... [more]