Five years ago, Rene Preval did something no president in Haitian history had done: He finished his full term, left the National Palace and moved to the countryside to live in solitude, far from the political maelstrom of Port-au-Prince. Now the 63-year-old agronomist – whose term in office brought a rare spell of stability and some social progress, but paved the way for the chaos that followed – is the man to beat in elections scheduled for Feb. 7. Full Story