After a historic visit to Cuba, French President Francois Hollande headed to Haiti on Tuesday to sign cooperation agreements and support reconstruction efforts that continue since the deadly 2010 earthquake

After a historic visit to Cuba, French President Francois Hollande headed to Haiti on Tuesday to sign cooperation agreements and support reconstruction efforts that continue since the deadly 2010 earthquake.
  
Hollande is only the second French head of state to tour what was once France's richest colony in the Caribbean. The then-president Nicolas Sarkozy visited Haiti after the quake.
  
This time, the trip is important because Hollande is traveling with ministers and secretaries of state and a big delegation from the private sector. He left Havana around 1255 GMT after a visit that included talks with President Raul Castro and his brother Fidel, the leader of Cuban revolution.
  
Hollande and his Haitian counterpart Michel Martelly will address the nation in Port-au-Prince near the statue of Toussaint Louverture, one of the fathers of Haitian independence.

Hollande arrives as Haiti is entering an electoral period. Because of a political crisis between Martelly and the opposition, elections are more than three years overdue.