Born from a Haitian father and a Swiss mother, Gaillard moved to Pétionville, Haiti, when she was two months old and spent her childhood there until the age of eight, when she moved back to Switzerland with her family.
On September 14, 2006 Guy François' body was discovered in his car in Pétionville, the wealthy suburb of Port-au-Prince in which he lived.
He financed the paper from his own funds, raised from a small Pétionville moviehouse he co-owned.
Remembering her youth in Haiti brought up images of hopscotch in school courtyards, of school uniforms, of eating mangoes and drinking fresco (ice with flavored syrup) in Pétionville.
Guy François, colonel, accused of conspiring to overthrow the government of Haiti
Since the 1940s, prostitution rings made up of Dominican women have circulated about the capital and today, are found in Pétionville.
Currently Lavrov lives in the Dominican Republic, while also operates businesses in Miami, Florida, United States; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Caracas, Venezuela; Madrid, Spain; Panama City, Panama; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Pétionville, Haiti; and Lima, Peru.