He was an official in the United Nations for many years, and briefly served as foreign minister of Haiti during the short-lived 1988 administration of Leslie Manigat.

[2] Breaking with the Haitian constitution a "council of the wise" was set up by the international powers to choose a new Prime Minister.

[6] His government was beset with opposition from the Fanmi Lavalas political party (and with them, a large amount of the Haitian populace)[7] and violence by and between gangs, rebels, and militants (especially in Port-au-Prince and its metropolitan area), many of whom are either former members of the Haitian Armed Forces (disbanded by Aristide in 1995[4]) or street gang supporters of the Aristide government "Chimere".

[8] The 2006 elections in Haiti, to replace the interim government of Latortue established after the 2004 Haitian coup d'état, were delayed four times after having been originally scheduled for October and November 2005.

Latortue was the head of the observer mission of La Francophonie in Togo for that country's October 2007 parliamentary election.