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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-14101939027466805082016-06-14T06:54:00.000-07:002016-06-14T06:54:26.829-07:00 The US Spent $33 Million on Haiti’s Scrapped Elections — Here is Where it Went<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Haiti’s electoral council announced yesterday
that new first-round presidential elections would be held in October after a
commission found widespread fraud and irregularities in the previous vote. The
prospect of the new vote — to be held alongside dozens of parliamentary seats
still up for grabs, has raised questions about how it could be funded. The
previous elections — determined to be too marred by fraud and violence to count
— cost upward of $100 million, with the bulk of the funding coming from
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But now, donors are balking. Last week the
State Department’s Haiti Special Coordinator Ken Merten said that if elections
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“could also call into question whether the U.S. will be able to continue to
support financially Haiti’s electoral process,” </i></b></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Merten added.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We still do not know what position we will
adopt regarding our financial support. U.S. taxpayers have already spent more
than $33 million and that is a lot. We can ask ourselves what was done with the
money or what guarantees there are that the same thing will not happen again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, what was done with the money? Could the
same thing happen again?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To begin with, that figure seems to include
money allocated in 2012 – years before the electoral process began. Local and
legislative elections, which former president Michel Martelly was
constitutionally required to organize, failed to happen. A significant share of
this early funding likely went to staffing and overhead costs as international
organizations or grantees kept their Haiti programs running, despite the absence
of elections. It’s also worth pointing out that many millions of that money
never went to electoral authorities, but rather to U.S. programs in support of
elections. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In April 2013, USAID awarded a grant to the
DC-based Consortium for Elections and Political Processes. In total, $7.23
million went to the consortium before the electoral process even began. An
additional $4.95 million was awarded in July 2015, a month before legislative
elections. The consortium consists of two DC-based organizations, the International
Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the National Democratic Institute
(NDI). In a January report to Congress, the State Department explained further
what some this money went towards:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“the creation and implementation of twenty-six Electoral Information
Centers (EICs) … to provide information to the general public on the electoral
process”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“training more than 100 journalists in several departments on topics
such as the international standards for elections …”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3. “Funding through INL supported election
security.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">4.
“USAID also supported the creation of a new domestic election
observation platform that helped build greater transparency into the electoral
process by establishing a grassroots coalition of reputable and well-trained
domestic observers …”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some funding also went to increasing women’s
participation in the electoral process. But it’s questionable what the return
on that $12.18 million really was. Not a single woman was elected to parliament
— though it now appears as though at least one was elected, only to have her
seat stolen through the bribing of an electoral judge. In terms of providing
information to the public about the elections, participation in both the
legislative and presidential elections was only about a fifth of the
population. The money spent on local observers may have been more successful,
but not for U.S. interests. The local observer group, the Citizen Observatory
for the Institutionalization of Democracy, led by Rosny Desroches, agreed with
other local observation missions that a verification commission (opposed by the
U.S.) was needed to restore confidence in the elections. The U.S. spent
millions training local observers, only to later ignore their analysis.
Instead, the U.S. has consistently pointed to the observation work of
international organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS)
and the EU. The U.S. also provided $1 million to the OAS for their observation
work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps it’s not a surprise the funding didn’t
have the intended effect. A 2012 evaluation of NDI conducted by Norway’s
foreign development agency found that about “4 out of every 10 dollars” went to
overhead, staff in Washington DC or to the expatriate country director who made
more than a quarter of a million dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The U.S. contributed $9.7 million to the
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) “basket fund” for elections. The UNDP
controlled the pooled donor funds and also funds contributed by the Haitian
government (more than any other individual donor). Funds were used to print ballots,
train workers, and for other logistical operations. However, it’s important to
note that $3 million of these funds were distributed in 2012 and 2014, well
before any election would take place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">An additional $7.57 million went to the United
Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for logistical operations for the
elections, mainly distributing and picking up ballots before and after the
election. After the August legislative elections were plagued by violent groups
that shut down voting, UNOPS shifted strategy for the October election. In
certain “hot spots,” ballots would not follow the normal procedures for
transportation to the tabulation center, instead, UNOPS would bypass the chain,
picking up electoral information at 67 voting centers and bringing the
materials straight to Port-au-Prince. According to diplomatic sources, UNOPS
threatened to pull out entirely if additional funds for this measure were not
given. The U.S. awarded $1.8 million to UNOPS on September 29, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">An additional $1.77 million was given to UNOPS
in December, but the second-round presidential election never took place.
Though it was clear to many that the elections would not be held given
widespread condemnation by local observers and civil society groups, the U.S.
and others in the international community insisted the second round go ahead.
With protests increasing, they moved forward and distributed electoral
materials for an election that was never going to happen. This strengthened
Martelly’s bargaining power over the opposition, but meant millions of dollars
were spent for no reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In total, funding to UNOPS, UNDP, OAS, IFES
and NDI totaled $30.45 million. This is the vast majority of the $33 million
the U.S. says it contributed to the electoral process. Additional funds were
also awarded through the State Department for election-related security.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So yes, the U.S. spent over $30 million on
Haiti’s elections, but not all of that went directly to the elections or was
even spent wisely in supporting them. It’s clear it would take far less for the
U.S. to support a Haitian-led electoral process next October. And perhaps the
best reason for the U.S. to continue to fund the election, if Haiti requests
such support, is that it was the U.S. and other actors in the international
community that pushed ahead and put millions of dollars into a fatally flawed
electoral process that Haitians have now determined was irreparably marred by
fraud. The problem is not that Haitian’s wasted U.S. taxpayer dollars by
scrapping the election results; it’s that the U.S. was throwing good money
after bad. That’s something that can be fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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USASpending.gov.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Source: <a href="http://cepr.net/blogs/haiti-relief-and-reconstruction-watch/the-us-spent-33-million-on-haiti-s-scrapped-elections-here-is-where-it-went" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a></span></div>
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-22408993274039200812016-05-10T06:52:00.001-07:002016-05-10T07:00:11.368-07:00Panama Papers: les donnés à la portée des clics des internautes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Une base de données contenant quelque 200'000 noms d'entreprises et de particuliers a été ouverte au public sur Internet par le ICIJ ( Consortium international des journalistes d'investigation).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chaque internaute peut désormais consulter à partir d'hier 9 mai 2016 une base de données fondée sur les millions de documents du cabinet d'avocats panaméen Mossack Fonseca et où figurent notamment le premier ministre islandais récemment contraint à la démission, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, et l'ex-ministre français du Budget, Jérôme Cahuzac, emporté par un scandale d'évasion fiscale en 2013.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>«C'est un cheminement naturel vers la transparence pour permettre à la société civile d'obtenir les informations de base sur les Panama Papers», </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a expliqué dans un entretien à l'AFP <a href="https://www.icij.org/journalists/gerard-ryle" target="_blank">Gerard Ryle,</a> directeur du Consortium international des journalistes d'investigation (ICIJ), qui a fait éclater le scandale.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/?utm_source=Watchdog&utm_campaign=3e09986140-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffd1d0160d-3e09986140-102099681&mc_cid=3e09986140&mc_eid=5f92280b6a" target="_blank">Cliquez ici pour fouiller au sujet de près de 214'000 sociétés-écrans et particuliers disséminés dans environ 21 paradis fiscaux du monde enregistrés au Panama.</a></span></span><br />
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-38212371714573018942016-04-30T22:28:00.002-07:002016-05-01T07:58:40.260-07:00« Le commerce bilatéral: source de défis frontaliers pour Haïti et la République dominicaine »<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">Peut-on qualifier de « bilatérales »</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">les transactions commerciales s’effectuant sur la frontière haïtiano-dominicaine ? Qui peut y vendre quoi, quand, comment et pourquoi ? Qui a le contrôle, qui bénéficie de ce marché ?</span></b><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">C’est avec l’espoir de trouver – et de partager- les réponses à ces épineuses questions et à bien d’autres que <b><i>l’Action Diplomatiqueet Sociale (ADIS)</i></b>, jeune organisation œuvrant dans le champ des Relations internationales, démarre son premier projet sur les relationshaïtiano-dominicaines intitulé « <b>Lecommerce bilatéral: source de défis frontaliers entre Haïti et la République dominicaine</b> ». Toute une série de séances de collections d’informations sont prévues sur la frontière des deux (2) pays, en vue de la sortie d’un document-bilan, en 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">" contribuer à la dynamisation de la Diplomatie ne sera pas </span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">possible </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">seulement</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">en étant assis derrière un bureau ou en </span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">donnant des interviews </span></i><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;">dans les médias .</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"> </span> </i></span><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">I<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;">l faut aussi se </span></i><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;">déplacer pour faire un état des lieux..."[Welseau Jacques]</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Contrairement à certaines méthodes habituelles consistant à se rendre sur internet et cueillir les premiers chiffres offerts par les moteurs de recherches ; contrairement aux tendances en vogue incitant les acteurs à se jeter goulument sur des miettes d’informations disponibles dans des documents dont les sources n’inspirent la moindre confiance, la batterie de jeunes engagés dans ce projet s’exigent d’aller sur le terrain, d’interviewer ceux qui vivent et agissent là-bas, de constater afin de se faire par eux-mêmes une idée basée sur la réalité de la situation dominant le secteur commercial dans cette région dite binationale.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Pour ce faire, les acteurs ont sélectionné quatre (4) entrées frontalières haïtiennes/dominicaines : Anse-à-Pitres/Pedernales,Ouanaminthe/</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://www.google.ht/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwji-Yauqq3MAhVH0h4KHV5FBz8QFgggMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDajab%25C3%25B3n_%28province%29&usg=AFQjCNHFcyjYbxABcQb1pCKhLmYC6nxOKA&bvm=bv.120551593,d.dmo"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Dajabón</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">, Malpasse/Jimani et Belladère/</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://www.google.ht/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwji-Yauqq3MAhVH0h4KHV5FBz8QFggaMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEl%25C3%25ADas_Pi%25C3%25B1a&usg=AFQjCNH5hyTY4TRg3fgZ2MDsIQAUO_Yqhg&bvm=bv.120551593,d.dmo&cad=rja"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Elías Piña</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">pour être les scènes sur lesquellesse déroulera tour à tour une chaine d’études de terrain, menées par ces jeunes curieux, sur les rapports commerciaux entretenus entre les deux (2) Etats partageant l’ile, à travers la fine frontière qui les relie.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Le groupe, dont le slogan « <i>Innovation et Rénovation pour le Progrès et l’Excellence</i> », a vu le jour en Mai 2014, à <a href="mailto:andcinerd@gmail.com" target="_blank">l’Académie Nationale Diplomatique et Consulaire (ANDC)</a>, lorsque, sous l’impulsion de l’actuel Président Judel Pédelaire JOSEPH, des jeunes venus d’universités et de facultés diverses, dont la majorité sont en Relations Internationales, se réunissaient pour discuter sur l’avenir de la Diplomatie en Haïti ainsi que les voies à entreprendre vers la redynamisation de ce secteur, ce pour l’amélioration des rapports entre Haïti et les autres entités (Etats,organisations) constituant la société internationale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><i>"<span style="font-size: large;">Nous voulons contribuer à la modernisation de la </span></i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Diplomatie haïtienne."[Judel P. Joseph]</span></i></blockquote>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A déclaré monsieur Pédelaire Joseph, enchainant qu’ « en ce 21<sup>e</sup> siècle, marqué par la Mondialisation, les technologies de la communication et de l’information (TIC), le changement climatique et autres facteurs, il est important qu’un pays renforce sa Diplomatie afin de se tailler une place sur la scène internationale »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Néanmoins, « contribuer à la dynamisation de laDiplomatie ne sera pas possible seulement en étant assis derrière un bureau ou en donnant des interviews dans les médias », reconnait Welseau Jacques, finissant en Sociologie. Il faut aussi se déplacer pour faire un état des lieux, continue-t-il. »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">« Avoir des données pouvant guider les politiques publiques en rapport avec le commerce et l’économie, c’est de la Diplomatie » a déclaré en conclusion le Président d’ADIS. Et la responsable de communication Fednaelle Louis elle de finir en ces termes : « D’ou l’importance du projet d’études de terrain sur les relations commerciales entre Haïti et sa plus proche voisine », et elle a invité tous les organismes et institutions concernés, à rejoindre ADIS, ses étudiants et son staff dans le cadre de ce « vaste » projet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Raoul Junior LORFILS, pour HCN<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Photos:Erlus Molière et Djennifer Césaire</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><br /></i></span><span lang="FR" style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>NDLR: Cet article peut être reproduit et publié mais avec tous les crédits d'auteurs et de source <a href="http://www.haiticonnexionnetwork.com/" target="_blank">(HCN: Haiti Connexion Network)</a></i></span></div>
Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-71361446571283841632016-04-30T12:27:00.001-07:002016-05-01T15:21:00.518-07:00Panama Papers: les anciens officiels haitiens impliqués se défendentSuite à la publication de l'article du journal américain the Miami Hérald en date du 28 avril 2016, citant des noms impliqués dans des tractations financières via la firme d'avocats panaméenne <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers" target="_blank">Mossack Fonseca -Panama Papers-</a> les anciens officiels haitiens mentionnés dans l'article ont donné à l'ttention du public des points de vue nettement différents des faits relatés par le Miami Hérald.<br />
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Le personnage central désigné dans l'article du journal Miami Hérald, Georges Andy René, a laissé entendre dans un email responsif traduit par la rédaction de HCN de l'anglais, comme suit:<br />
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<i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span title="“I am a Business Lawyer with more than 15 years of international experience in Business and Corporate Law.">«Je suis un avocat d'affaires avec plus de 15 ans d'expérience internationale dans les affaires et droits des sociétés. </span><span title="I represented through the years hundreds of clients, from all over the world before moving back to my country Haiti.">Jai représenté à travers les ans des centaines de clients, de partout dans le monde avant de revenir dans mon pays Haïti. </span><span title="On August 22 2012 I was named Director General of the Center for Facilitation of Investments by the President of the Republic of Haiti.">Le
22 Août 2012 j'ai été nommé directeur général du Centre de Facilitation
des Investissements par le Président de la République d'Haïti. </span><span title="In that capacity I have provided to the Prime Minister, Minister of Trade and other Ministers, very technical analysis and legal briefings on how to reinforce Haiti's economy.">À
ce titre, j'ai remis au Premier ministre, ministre du Commerce et
d'autres ministres, une analyse très technique et des séances d'information
juridiques sur la façon de renforcer l'économie d'Haïti. </span><span title="I left public office on February 6th 2014 to go back to the private sector and resume my legal practice advising entities on doing business in Haiti.">Je
suis parti de la fonction publique le 6 Février 2014 pour revenir au
secteur privé en vue de reprendre ma pratique des conseils juridiques relatifs aux entreprises commerciales ou des affaires en Haïti. </span><span title="From what I know, the July 28, 2014 MOU you are referring to was a high level National Energy Security agreement between the Governments of Haiti and that of Trinidad.">D'après
ce que je sais, le 28 Juillet, 2014 MOU auquel vous faites référence a été un
accord de sécurité nationale de l'énergie de haut niveau fait entre les
gouvernements d'Haïti et celui de Trinidad. </span><span title="Geostrategic and National Security Government decisions are taken at the Highest levels after discussion with the Council of Ministries.">Des décisions
géostratégiques nationales et gouvernementales de sécurité sont prises au
plus haut niveau après discussion avec le Conseil des ministres. </span><span title="Whether or not technical analysis and briefings made by me from the time I was at CFI helped the representatives of the two Countries sign this important National Energy Security MOU, is a question of opinion not fact.">Qu'il s'agisse ou non de l'analyse technique et des séances d'information faites
par moi quand j'étais à la FCI pour aider les
représentants des deux pays à signer cette importante National Energy
Security MOU est une question d'opinion et non de fait. </span><span title="A Fact is that the drafting, negotiating and signing of a country to country MOU is the responsibility of its High ranked signatories.”
">Le fait est que la rédaction, la négociation et la signature d'un protocole d'entente d'un pays
à l'autre est la responsabilité de signataires de haut niveau".</span></span></i></blockquote>
Georges Andy René se dégage de toute responsabilité dans cette affaire de pétrole à être importé en Haiti à partir de Trinidad & Tobago, <b>renvoyant la balle aux dirigeant haitiens</b>. Il n'a pas voulu répondre davantage quant aux autres combines soulevées par le Miami Hérald (<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/" target="_blank">SNIPP, Proteus Holding</a>, etc)<br />
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Quant à l'ex-PM Laurent Lamothe, il a nié avoir été au courant des activités de Georges Andy René qui, selon lui, apparemment était en "gros conflits d'intérêts" du fait qu'il était un agent du gouvernement haitien travaillant aussi au profit de ses intérêts personnels.<br />
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Wilson Laleau qui était ministre haitien du Commerce lors de ces tractations financières s'est plaint du fait que son nom soit lié au Panama Papers sur les médias sociaux.<br />
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<i>"En ce qui me concerne, je n'ai rien à voir avec Panama Papers", </i>a-t-il déclaré au journal haitien le Nouvelliste</blockquote>
D'autres personnes ont été citées dans l'article de Jacqueline Charles du Miami Herald tel Ralph Pereira, ami de longue date de l'ex-président Martelly. Il a dit au Nouvelliste qu'il ne faisait que conseiller "offcieusement" son ami, en l'occurrence Martelly, à cause de son expérience en la matière.<br />
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Le sénat haitien se propose de faire la lumière sur cette affaire. Son président Ronald Larêche a déclaré au Miami Herald qu'il consulterait les documents Panama Papers à cet effet. <b>Le 9 mai prochain l''<span class="lang-en" lang="en"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Consortium_of_Investigative_Journalists" title="International Consortium of Investigative Journalists">International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</a></span> (Consortium international pour le journalisme d'investigation) promet de délivrer au public le reste des documents en rapport avec les Panama Papers qui révèleront beaucoup plus sur les compagnies offshore (compagnies écrans ou bien "shell corporations") qui utilisaient la firme Mossack Fonseka pour cacher des avoirs suspects, tout simplement mal acquis ou encore pour ne pas payer des impôts.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The humble banana
is under attack by a disease that is spreading around the globe, and
threatening Latin America's all-important export industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The industry is so
worried about it, that it moved this week's International Banana Congress from
Costa Rica to Miami at the last minute so that attendees wouldn't transport the
disease to the region with the contaminated dirt on their shoes. Latin America
is the primary source of bananas for North America and Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The disease --
known as "Panama disease" or "Fusarium wilt" -- has already
spread from Asia to parts of Australia, Africa and the Middle East. It
specifically affects the Cavendish banana, which is the fruit that consumers in
the West are accustomed to eating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization warned this month that the $36 billion banana
industry must act "to tackle one of the world's most destructive banana
diseases."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">An earlier strain
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in the 1960s, the Gros Michel. Producers subsequently adopted the Cavendish
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Now, banana
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current Cavendish variety, as a new strain of the disease has caused production
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Taiwan has created
a number of "mutant" Cavendish bananas that are being tested in the
Philippines and China, according to Inge Van den Bergh, a senior banana
scientist at Bioversity International in Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">"They're
quite promising," but they're not necessarily as tasty or suitable for
long-distance transport, she told CNNMoney. There's no "silver bullet
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For now, banana
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">But consumers in
North America and Europe could start seeing changes to their banana varieties
and prices over the next decade if the Panama disease spreads to Latin America,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The developing
world is most at risk from the spreading disease, which stays in the soil for
up to 40 years. Billions of dollars and billions of tons of food are at risk,
and planting new varieties of bananas is very expensive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">"The spread
of Fusarium wilt could have a significant impact on growers, traders and
families who depend on the banana industry," warned plant pathologist
Fazil Dusunceli from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Selon le journal américan The Miami Herald, des anciens officiels haitiens ont cherché à former un réseau suspect via la firme Mossack Fonseca pour exploiter de manière exclusive la vente du pétrole en Haiti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miami Herald écrit que George Andy René, chef du<i> Centre de Facilitation des Investissements ou CFI </i>de 2012 à 2014<i> </i>apparait comme le personnage central de combines financières qui prendraient place sous le couvert d'une corporation dénommée <i>Proteus Holding S.A. </i>et d'une autre corporation-écran,<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">la SNIPP (Société Nationale d’Importation de Produits Pétroliers)</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">devant être</span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">enregistrée chez la firme Mossack Fonseca connue de par le monde en tant que Panama Papers. A</span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"> refugium peccatorum </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">où l'on retouve une '</span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">mixture</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">' hétérogène de politiciens, criminels ou richards cherchant à blanchir leurs richesses mal acquises ou s'abriter du fisc de leurs pays respectifs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Toujours d'après l'auteur de l'article dévoilant ces combines -Jacqueline Charles du Miami Herald- René travaillait dur pour s'accaparer de droits exclusifs d'importation du pétrole en Haiti à partir de Trinidad and Tobago sous le couvert de cette compagnie mentionnée plus haut et qui abriterait des partenaires non cités.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">René était conseiller spécial de Laurent Lamothe et travaillait pour le gouvernement de Martelly comme chef du<i> CFI</i></span><br />
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par une firme américaine qui évaluait les investissements de la BID dans le
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appels d'offres, n’ont pas reçu aval de la Cour Supérieure des Comptes et du
Contentieux Administratif et font perdre beaucoup d'argent à l'Etat haïtien.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bord de mer de Port-au-Prince se loue à 40 $ US tandis que la DGI sur
injonction de Martelly et Laleau a loué à 23 gdes le mètre carré.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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la volonté de Mr Danton Léger (commissaire du gouvernement) de bloquer ce scandale aussi important que celui
de Secosa et de Sogener sur lesquels nous recherchons des dossiers complémentaires
avant d'étaler au grand jour la corruption érigée <i><b>en modèle de gouvernement (souligné par HCN)</b></i></span><br />
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-84227728449009295962016-03-12T07:40:00.001-08:002016-04-27T08:31:23.781-07:00L'État Prétexte<div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pierre Clitandre dans notre dernier éditorial a parlé avec raison de cet État sur lequel la théorie et les intellectuels se taisent (<a href="http://www.haiticonnexion.net/#!o-se-cachent-nos-intellectuels/c5iy" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haiticonnexion.net/#!o-se-cachent-nos-intellectuels/c5iy</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">). </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">On se tait en vérité sur la nature de cet État surtout quand on se sert des modèles ordinaires pour le comprendre. Quelques penseurs ont effleuré la vérité, mais sans aller trop loin par peur peut-être de brasser une boue qui pourrait emporter toute une société. Car plus on essaie d’analyser cet État en restant fidèle à l’observation des faits réels, et surtout en tenant compte des vrais mobiles et motivations des principaux acteurs aux commandes, on est étonné de découvrir quelque chose qui échappe à tout modèle préétabli et qui serait presque du domaine de la fiction littéraire ou du burlesque tout simplement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">L’État ici est une sorte de prétexte, une façade, dont l’objectif est de drainer les ressources de la nation vers des espaces bien définis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chaque activité, chaque projet, chaque attitude sont des prétextes pour arriver à cet objectif. Bien des luttes prétendument contre cet État ont été des mécanismes de régulation devant apporter un sang neuf, un nouveau personnel à la machine broyant la nation. Comme le prétexte doit signifier, représenter quelque chose, c’est-à-dire donner un semblant de preuves de réalisations pour permettre au mécanisme de fonctionner, la nation tire quelque chose des miettes et subsistent difficilement avec. Dans ce jeu de l’État prétexte, il faut soigner en particulier l’interface avec l’étranger, source de revenus importants. Ici, on peut faire semblant d’accepter une certaine modernité, d’être en accord avec certains concepts. Les tenants de cet État sont devenus de bons comédiens à ce jeu du faire semblant. L’étranger se perd souvent dans ce jeu de l’État prétexte où, sinon, il s’y trouve bien, car finalement il en sort toujours gagnant, surtout qu’en final il pense trouver des arguments pour démontrer que ce peuple manque un chromosome et que les Haïtiens ne peuvent aller nulle part sinon végéter dans ce chaos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">La politique dans tous les pays est un espace où des acteurs avec des intérêts différents essaient de trouver des consensus autour de points de vue différents. Les citoyens sanctionnent les débats, les projets avec leurs bulletins de vote. La lutte peut être rude, sans pitié même, mais elle reste pacifique, car chacun respecte des règles établies pour la concorde au sein de la nation. Plus que cela, tout un chacun s’entend sur un minimum ayant trait toujours à la défense et au progrès du pays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chez nous, pour l’instant nous sommes toujours au stade de la lutte entre des chefs de bandes, bandes pouvant se disloquer facilement suivant de copieuses offres financières. La partie se joue en partie à huis clos le peuple maintenu à distance, spectateur nécessaire pour l’étalage des privilèges sans lesquels le chef ne se sent pas chef. L’intérêt de la nation, son futur, ne concerne pas lesdits dirigeants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Un peuple surtout victime de cette corruption qui fauche quotidiennement cette nation ! Un peuple détruit, pourri par l’exemple donné par ceux qui au lieu d’être les gardiens du troupeau en sont toujours les loups, si bien que de nombreux citoyens ne rêvent que de venir chevaucher le monstre, l’État prétexte. C’est finalement le triomphe du « sétoupamisme » dans toute sa splendeur. « Se tou pa m ». À mon tour maintenant ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dans un tel contexte, on comprend comment il est difficile d’organiser des élections libres ce qui signifierait la disparition d’une grande partie de cette classe politique et de leurs alliés qui depuis quelques décennies mènent ce jeu absurde et destructeur.</span></div>
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-30842855084249274642016-03-11T12:28:00.001-08:002016-04-27T08:27:10.810-07:00From Haiti to Cuba, One CEO’s Big Plans For Caribbean Aviation<div style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 26.100000381469727px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Philippe Bayard, the CEO and founder of Sunrise Airways, Haiti’s only Haitian-owned airline, climbs aboard his newest aircraft, an ATR 42-320, as a small procession of employees board the plane, along with a priest who will deliver an inaugural blessing.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Minutes later, the formalities conclude, Sunrise employees scatter in pursuit of responsibilities and passengers clamor aboard for the airline’s now-blessed first flight to Camaguey, Cuba.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I grab a window seat – eager to add Cuba’s interior vistas to my already vast exposure to her pristine, alluring coastline.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the beginning, Hispaniola was the site of the first European settlement in the Americas thanks to Christopher Columbus’ first voyage in 1492.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Camaguey is Cuba’s third largest city and the home to the largest concentration of Cubans with Haitian heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cuba acquired its Haitian connection in the early 1800’s after some French slave owners fled Haiti’s revolution, bringing thousands of Haitian slaves, coffee and sugar cane production to Cuba for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Later, some Haitians migrated to Cuba as “brazeros” or hand workers. Perhaps some of the passengers are descendants of those original Haitians.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once in flight, my curiosity invites me to move across the row next to Philippe.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wonder if his thoughts are adrift with the history surrounding people of Camaguey and Haiti.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To my surprise, and with comfortable precision, Philippe jumps from the details of load factors and fuel costs to what regional travel can mean for Caribbean people today.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After all, the new aircraft and Lithuanian crew are leased, so Philippe’s mental acuity is concentrated on commercial viability. He is a man with a plan, and there is no room for miscalculation.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I don’t see Haiti – I see the Caribbean” – Philippe Bayard</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Haiti needs Philippe to succeed. With an eye for detail and a vision for what his airline can become, Philippe is among a very small number of Haitian entrepreneurs able to take a long-term view of a commercial opportunity and also summon the powerful creative forces in Haitians themselves that seem so muddled in the daily struggle to survive. The dedication and professionalism of Sunrise’s employees show that Haitians can take on complex challenges and succeed.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sunrise Airways was born out of Sunrise Aviation, when Philippe’s aircraft leasing and charter business witnessed the dying off of a number of other Haitian national airlines.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What emerged was an idea for a Haitian national airline that was grounded in the successes and failures of the other contenders – along with a handful of repossessed aircraft.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, Sunrise is the first and only Haitian-owned airline to be awarded a Part 129 Operating Permit (Dominican Republic). It operates daily scheduled passenger service connecting key gateways across the region.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also at work is the emerging opportunity to capitalize on Cuba’s transition to more openness and the development of its private sector that promises to put money in the hands of the average Cuban.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The winds of change in Cuba and the region will favor Sunrise Airways.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While major US airlines have succeeded by focusing mainly on tourist travel between the US and the Caribbean, they lack an affinity for the fabric that connects the region’s populations together and how to serve their needs. Already there are plans to add another ATR to Sunrise’s fleet.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In addition to the daily responsibilities for the airline, Philippe is fighting to bring down taxes to support regional air travel growth.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And when he’s not charging ahead with airline issues, Philippe contributes by supporting efforts to solve Haiti’s massive environmental problems as the president and founding member of the Audubon Society of Haiti. The crippling deforestation so vividly on display from the air is his top priority.</span></div>
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-13301986610991129742016-01-11T19:57:00.002-08:002016-04-27T08:28:07.513-07:00Ottawa, [Canada] interpellé pour son rôle dans l’exploitation minière en Haïti<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="FR"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Combien peuvent
valoir les ressources minières du sous-sol haïtien ? Au moins 20 milliards de
dollars, estime un rapport publié hier par Concertation Haïti. Ce regroupement
s’inquiète du rôle canadien dans l’exploitation abusive de ce pays. L’industrie
minière en Haïti, enjeux et réalités montre du doigt un projet de
déréglementation dont profiteraient les compagnies minières étrangères, au
mépris du peuple haïtien.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"><i>Photo: Hector Retamal Agence France-Presse Les mains d’un travailleur minier près de la capitale Port-au-Prince. Le Canada a financé 43% de la totalité des fonds mis à la disposition de l’instance haïtienne vouée à la modernisation de la loi minière d’Haïti entre 2009 et 2014.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Six ans après le terrible séisme qui a aggravé
la situation déjà précaire d’Haïti, le gouvernement haïtien compte sur la mise
en valeur des ressources minières pour assurer son développement. Il a fait
connaître ses intentions en la matière aux compagnies minières, tout en
amorçant une mise à jour des modalités d’exploitation du sous-sol de l’île,
observe Gerardo Ducos, un ancien responsable d’Haïti au sein d’Amnistie
internationale, à qui avait été confiée la rédaction de l’étude.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">La loi minière
jusqu’ici en vigueur en Haïti date du temps de la dictature de Jean-Claude
Duvalier. Le président actuel, Michel Martelly, arrivé au pouvoir en 2011, a
mis en place des ententes bilatérales et de coopération en faveur de l’exploitation,
tout en envisageant ces réformes avec l’assistance de la Banque mondiale. Le
Canada a financé 43 % de la totalité des fonds mis à la disposition de
l’instance haïtienne vouée à la « modernisation » de la loi minière d’Haïti
entre 2009 et 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">En 2012, de
nouveaux permis ont été accordés à des compagnies minières canadiennes et
américaines. Mais les faits et gestes de ces compagnies ont vite été dénoncés
par des intellectuels et des universitaires haïtiens, notamment en raison de
l’absence de consultations locales comme d’évaluations des ressources autant
que des conséquentes écologiques sur un territoire fragilisé.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">En 2013, un petit
groupe de sénateurs haïtiens a imposé un moratoire fragile sur les avancées
rapides de l’exploitation minière en Haïti. Dans l’état actuel de la politique
haïtienne, le dossier minier apparaît en suspens, bien qu’un simple décret
puisse le relancer à grande vitesse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pour Andréanne
Martel, du Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en développement
international et société (CIRDIS), les modifications des codes miniers partout
dans le monde vont dans le sens d’une libéralisation de plus en plus grande.
Haïti est à inscrire dans ce paysage global transnational, qui fait une place
de plus en plus belle aux minières, au détriment des intérêts locaux.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">La transformation
des politiques canadiennes d’aide internationale au profit d’actions vouées à
la promotion d’intérêts financiers privés préoccupe aussi beaucoup Concertation
pour Haïti. Cette nouvelle politique, adoptée récemment par le gouvernement de
Stephen Harper, fait de l’« exploitation minière un enjeu central des rapports
entre le Canada et Haïti ».<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Selon Gerardo
Ducos, l’Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI) avait consacré
en 2009-2010 environ deux millions à des« efforts consacrés aux mines et à leur
développement ». En 2014, ce chiffre était grimpé à 26 millions. Ce signal ne
trompe pas sur les nouvelles intentions du Canada, dit-il.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">« À
Port-au-Prince, l’ambassade du Canada attend à bras ouverts les compagnies
minières afin de les aider. » Pour le groupe Concertation pour Haïti, la
situation dans ce pays durement éprouvé réclame davantage d’attentions d’un
tout autre type, notamment en faveur de l’éducation, de la production
alimentaire et de la consolidation de la structure étatique et des droits de
l’homme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nixon Boumba,
coordonnateur du collectif Justice Mine en Haïti, explique pour sa part que les
projets miniers, concentrés dans le nord du pays, des lieux très pauvres,
mettent en péril des ressources en eau potable déjà très fragiles. «
L’information n’est pas communiquée à la population », observe sur le terrain
le sociologue Boumba. De plus, les mesures mises en place pour préserver
l’environnement sont, pour ainsi dire, inexistantes,« alors que le pays est
déjà plus que fragile, notamment à cause de la déforestation ».<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Le regroupement
Concertation pour Haïti entend saisir dès que possible le nouveau gouvernement
canadien de ces enjeux. Sous le règne des conservateurs, l’ACDI a été fusionnée
avec le ministère des Affaires étrangères. La plateforme du Parti libéral du
Canada en matière d’aide internationale n’a pas fait l’objet de discussions
importantes durant la dernière campagne électorale. Pour l’instant, la
politique mise en place sous les conservateurs continue donc de s’appliquer. Il
n’a pas été possible hier d’obtenir des commentaires d’Ottawa à ce propos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No.
F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05781003 Date: 12/31/2015<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wednesday,
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Fw: Saudi Oil
Refinery in Haiti<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">From:
Lucas, Laura D</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 08:41 AM<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cc: Mull, Stephen D; Jacobson, Roberta S; Dibble, Elizabeth
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Subject: RE: Saudi Oil Refinery In Haiti<o:p></o:p></div>
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From: Mills, Cheryl D sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
8:27 AM To: S_SpeclalAsslstants<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cc: Mull, Stephen D; Jacobson, Roberta S; Dibble,
Elizabeth L; Mills, Cheryl D Subject: Fw: Saudi Oil Refinery in Haiti<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am trying to find out what if any info we have re this part of the
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 08:22 AM<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Adams, Thomas C<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cc: Laszczych, Joanne; Warnholz, Jean-Louis; Krishnan,
Ganapathisubramanian; Toiv, Nora F; Marsh, Victor L; Merten, <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1954"
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Groth, Gregory S; Kazemi, Shamim; Mills, Cheryl D Subject: Re: Saudi Oil
Refinery' in Haiti<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sure<o:p></o:p></div>
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Joanne can give a time. I want jlw to join the two of us
when we meet w/ him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thx</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Cdm<o:p></o:p></div>
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From: Adams, Thomas C<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:31 PM<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To: Mills,
Cheryl D</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Cc: Laszczych, Joanne; Warnholz, Jean-Louis; Krishnan,
Ganapathisubramanian; Toiv, Nora F; Marsh, Victor L; Merten,<o:p></o:p></div>
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UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No.
F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05781003 Date: 12/31/2015 UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of
State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05781003 Date: 12/31/2015<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kenneth H; Foote, Daniel L; Groth, Gregory S; Kazemi,
Shamim Subject: Saudi Oil Refinery in Haiti<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 90%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1 .4(D) I took a call around noon from Dieuseul Valcin who
asked that I schedule a meeting with him, you, and me this Friday afternoon to
talk about a $30-$35 billion dollar oil refinery that the Saudis want to build
in Haiti tos Nice the U.S. market. He said he re resents a French Com an
involved in this</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Origin, did not work for PEG, SA, but was helping them with this refinery
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-65990845112629786062016-01-10T21:37:00.000-08:002016-04-27T08:29:23.126-07:00Let my people go!<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: Arial; width: 98%px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By Jean H Charles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Haiti, after its magnificent epic day of January 1, 1804, when it declared for itself and for the rest of the world that slavery is anathema to God’s mission for man on earth, fell from its pedestal of light for the world on October 17, 1806. It conspired to assassinate its founder father Jean Jacques Dessalines because he asked whether some of these 8,000 farm plantations left by the French settlers should not be shared with those African sons and daughters now citizens of Haiti with no lineage from France, who toiled with their sweat and their labour without wages for 300 years?</span><br />
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Jean H Charles LLB, MSW, JD, was a candidate in the last Haitian presidential election. He can be reached at<a href="mailto:jeanhcharles@aol.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #a41a3e;">jeanhcharles@aol.com</span></a> and followed at <a href="http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/haiti.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #a41a3e;">Caribbean News Now/Haiti</span></a> </address>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Albeit there was later the heroic mantra of Henry Christophe who built the Citadel on top of a mountain to prevent the return of the French troops and forged a nation with British help; Haiti descended into hell by capitulating in 1825 to King Charles X of France in paying a mafia deal to have its freedom recognized by the rest of the world, albeit it was earned on the battle field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It sinks further down with a successive form of governments more interested in keeping power and making deals with foreign powers to keep the population ignorant so its natural resources and its human resources would be used not for the benefit of the citizens of the country but for outside nations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course there were luminaries like Antenor Firmin and Demesvar Delorme, who argued for the equality of human race; there was also Jean Price Mars who instilled the concept that black is beautiful and as such worthy of love, expectation and spiritual as well as material nourishment as a white person. Haiti fell so low that it had to endure the American occupation for 15 years from 1915 to 1934 that brought no solace to its ordeal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It went through a long period of dictatorship that lasted more than 30 years, with its children exiling themselves all over the world to escape political persecution. Upon ushering in democracy in 1986, Haiti continues its descent into hell, with populist and illiberal governments that care little for its population. The last one, the regime of Michel Joseph Michel Martelly, was supposed to break completely with the past, considering his disgust for the old regimes and the passion of the population to give him the reins of command because of his iconoclast style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The condition of the people of Haiti has not improved one bit. It continues to suffer humiliation from Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, where the most fragile members from the rural areas have taken refuge in search of a hospitable sky. The life of the internal nomads in the ghettos of the capital and the big cities continue unabated in squalor and in governmental indifference or demagogic caring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Martelly government has not been diligent enough to schedule regular elections at the local and legislative levels during his term in office. The presidential election at the end of his mandate is marred with irregularities, plain fraud and arrogant use of public funds and outright interference on behalf of his candidates, in particular the presidential candidate Jovenel Moise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There has been mass movement to say enough is enough. The international community is standing on the opposite side, as in 1804 when they put an interdiction against the young Haiti to dare break the chain of the world order of slavery; as in 1986 when it supported the Duvalier dictatorship for decades up to the last minute until people power put the presidential couple out of the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the dawn of 2016, the legitimate cry is to shout, “Let my people go!” Let them enjoy the fruits of nation building and the fruits of democracy. Haiti, as usual, is today in the pioneering mode of breaking the mold of faux democracy. This faux democracy has been entertained by the so-called United Nations Stabilization Force and the Core group pretending it is a democracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This last election represents a vivid example of the political charade of Madame la Marquise in Haiti. The vignette of democracy in Haiti casts the following picture: a mass that demands to be paid to vote for a candidate at $25 per vote because that’s all the benefits he will receive afterwards from the elected ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The candidates that believe they can win only by filling the ballot box. The electoral council (CEP), arrogant and corrupt, sells the certificate of winning to the one who offers most money. The government, arrogant and bold, appropriates state funds for its candidates, and the middle class that finds it abhorrent to stand in line with the masses to accomplish a civic duty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Using the lowest common denominator of evaluation, the 28 years of Haiti’s apprenticeship to democracy under the aegis of the MINUSTHA stabilization force is an utter failure and a pure charade. It is time for Haiti to start de novo on its own a project of remedial learning to democracy. It cannot be done through the elections. We have made the case that the process is at best flawed; at worst corrupt at all levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The best Haitian minds at home and in the Diaspora must be pulled together, starting with all the 54 candidates regrouped into G8 and G30 formation to build a transitional government that will put Haiti in the right orbit before it can fly under a normal electoral process towards democracy. As a student that needs remedial learning to achieve, we cannot pretend that Haiti is pursuing a normal traction towards full democracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Core group (United States, European Union, CARICOM and OAS) must not stand in the way preventing this natural birthing. A caesarian operation will be costly, harmful and detrimental to Haiti, to the region and to the rest of the world, with refugees flooding the region as is now the picture in the Mediterranean towards Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This transition year of 2016 represents a seminal moment to bring about true change for Haiti, change that will instill the sentiment of appurtenance and citizenship within all the sectors, change that will build all over the country: sane institutions and excellent infrastructure to prevent the internal and external nomad process of the population. Change that will promote an affirmative action program on behalf of rural and ghetto Haiti to usher them into the middle class status and change that will propel Haiti to its divine mission of emancipator nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is not normal and not fair that a country so rich in human and natural resources, with such a glorious past and a grand vision, stands so low in human index of development. Of its ten million population, approximately eight million are either unemployed or underemployed (selling water, used clothing and cooked food on the side of the road); one million are of school age; half a million are senior citizens and only half a million (300,000 in the capital Port au Prince and 200,000 in the rest of the country) enjoy the ecstasy of middle class or well off status.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A massive culture of wealth creation must become the fabric of this country. The combined cocktail of failed governments blended with a supportive international core group must yield to an enlighten government incubated by a progressive international community that believes a good nation produces good citizens, leading to peace and prosperity at home and abroad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let my people go! Let my people go, away from misery, from squalor and humiliation! Let my people go away from the tribulations of preferring to take a chance amidst the sharks on the sea than staying at home. Their cries have reached the ear of Providence, and the dead spirit of the founding fathers! Holding them further down might bring the seven calamities unto their holder as it has been with the Pharaoh!</span></td></tr>
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<br style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;" />Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-28038319702848924632015-10-24T07:57:00.001-07:002016-04-27T08:30:41.542-07:00Bilateral trade between China, CAN tops $40 billion in 2014: report<div class="articleTitle" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 1em; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Certains ont critiqué sur le Forum de Haiti Connexion le gouvernement haitien du fait qu'il commence à entretenir une certaine relation avec la Chine, arguant: sa <i>Ayiti </i></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i style="font-weight: bold;">ap fè ak peyi</i> <b><i>kominis sa a. </i>En effet, la Chine a offert son son assistance à Haiti dans l'élaboration de certains projets d'infrastructure.<i> </i></b><b>Quelle tristesse de voir que des compatriotes conservent un esprit arriéré quant au développement d'Haiti! Puisse l'article ci-dessous éclairer leur lanterne et corriger leur vision sclérosée du monde et du développement économique réel d'Haiti!</b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Xinhua)<br /><span class="from" style="display: inline-block;">Updated: 2015-10-24 14:54:34</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first rise took place between 2005 and 2008, followed by a fall in 2009 due to the international financial crisis, before a return to prolonged growth between 2010 and 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The principal exporter was Peru, which exported 6.68 billion dollars worth of goods to China, or 50.5 percent of the total. Colombia came second with 42.5 percent of exports to China, with Ecuador and Bolivia far behind, with 3.8 and 3.2 percent respectively.</span></div>
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-71206210249156883102015-10-23T07:31:00.001-07:002015-10-24T07:44:10.759-07:00Blow for Ecuadorian banana exports<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="kop" style="font-weight: bold;">L'économie d'Haiti peut-elle dépendre seulement de l'exportation de bananes?</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="kop" style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="kop" style="font-weight: bold;">Cet article ci-dessous édifiera un peu sur la matière (anglais)</span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="kop" style="font-weight: bold;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="kop" style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span></div>Blow for Ecuadorian banana exports</span><br><br></span><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So far, the current economic crisis affecting Ecuador has not negatively affected the country's banana production, in part because there have not been any considerable climate changes or natural disasters in the producing provinces.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4naiDAV3OEw/VipE1tkCM7I/AAAAAAAAAik/uqREkN3rGHE/s640/blogger-image-136840989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4naiDAV3OEw/VipE1tkCM7I/AAAAAAAAAik/uqREkN3rGHE/s640/blogger-image-136840989.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AT_-WqoRDd8/ViuZOFZ8A3I/AAAAAAAAAi0/aLXic91FAdg/s640/blogger-image-736778211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AT_-WqoRDd8/ViuZOFZ8A3I/AAAAAAAAAi0/aLXic91FAdg/s640/blogger-image-736778211.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, Jorge Alex Serrano, president of the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador (AEBE), states that the market has been affected, as even though the price for 2015 was set at 6.55 dollars per box by Ministerial Decision No. <a href="tel:598 25/11/14" style="text-decoration: none;">598 25/11/14</a>, nobody is currently adhering to it.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Neither producers or exporters are adhering to the law; I have heard that boxes are being sold for three dollars and fifty cents, almost half of the official price," he explained.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Exports</b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is mainly the result of a banana surplus worldwide. The North American market is acquiring bananas grown in Guatemala at a lower price and with the same quality as that of the Ecuadorian product.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There are big companies that are planting more bananas in Guatemala and Costa Rica, and that is driving us away from the U.S. market, because it is cheaper to buy them there."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">El Niño</b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The imminent arrival of this climate phenomenon to Ecuador is also another factor that banana producers and exporters are on the lookout for, as in case it hit in the same way as in 1997-1998, it would affect a large amount of hectares and cause significant economic losses.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The phenomenon would also affect Central America's banana production and have an impact on the international price of the product. "We'll see how the phenomenon of El Niño develops in our country; it may or may not be very strong, so we'll have to wait and see what lies ahead."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Price for a banana box in 2016</b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The president of the AEBE said that the banana advisory committee held one of its first meetings at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries (MAGAP) to set the new price of a box of bananas for 2016. If a consensus is not reached, the Minister of Agriculture, Javier Ponce, would be in charge of setting the price for next year.</span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Source: elproductor.com</span></div>Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-46026165800627535882015-09-27T06:56:00.001-07:002015-09-27T06:56:13.702-07:00Les élections [en Haiti] sont dans l'impasse: KONAKOM<div id="ygrp-text"><div><div class="" align="center" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11862" style="text-align: start;"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11864" class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LES ELECTIONS SONT DANS L’IMPASSE<o></o></b></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11868"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GJGd59g6Jzc/Vgf1eBJ1ZuI/AAAAAAAAAhk/40mhq2qdVlc/s640/blogger-image--1804441013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GJGd59g6Jzc/Vgf1eBJ1ZuI/AAAAAAAAAhk/40mhq2qdVlc/s640/blogger-image--1804441013.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11868"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Quand plus d’un mois après la réalisation d’un exercice citoyen qui s’est avéré être une véritable mascarade ponctuée de violences, d’intimidations, d’irrégularités et de fraudes massives, qu’aucun résultat digne de ce nom n’aie été proclamé ; qu’aucune évaluation sérieuse n’aie été faite par une commission indépendante, qu’aucune sanction n’aie été prise contre les responsables de ce gâchis ; moins d’un mois avant la date prévue pour la continuation de ce processus sans qu’aucune liste électorale n’aie été publiée ni affichée devant les bureaux de vote comme prévue dans le décret électoral ; quand le conseil électoral se trouve aujourd’hui à la recherche d’un(e) responsable de la logistique, d’un(e) responsable des ressources humaines, d’un(e) responsable des opérations électorales, d’un(e) responsable des affaires juridiques… (voir le Nouvelliste no : 39562 du samedi 26 et du dimanche 27 septembre 2015) ; quand ce CEP évolue dans un environnement politico-administratif pollué ; </span></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11870"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qyu4JIXBRvs/Vgf1e_FzClI/AAAAAAAAAhs/WJeqSaC0XVo/s640/blogger-image-173371292.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qyu4JIXBRvs/Vgf1e_FzClI/AAAAAAAAAhs/WJeqSaC0XVo/s640/blogger-image-173371292.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11870"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tout laisse croire que les conseillers(ères) électoraux n’ont aucun contrôle de la machine électorale qui s’est visiblement emballée. Il n’y a aucune honte à constater et à avouer son incapacité à réaliser de véritables élections libres, honnêtes et démocratiques au pays. La probité intellectuelle, le respect des citoyens, le respect de la chose publique et de la République le commandent. Des élections dignes de ce nom sont techniquement et politiquement impossibles actuellement en Haïti. Il serait impardonnable et catastrophique de conduire la population, par un orgueil mal placé ou une totale irresponsabilité, à une nouvelle aventure, à une seconde catastrophe prévisibles, sous la pression ou la dictée de quelques groupes d’intérêts ou/et d’un segment intéressé de la dite « communauté internationale » qui, tout compte fait, n’avoueront jamais être comptables des malheurs du pays et de son sous-développement chronique. </span></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11859"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11859"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chers(ères) compatriotes du Conseil électoral provisoire, ne vous laissez pas utiliser à cette sale besogne, car vous serez seuls(es) face à votre conscience, face au regard de votre famille, celui de vos amis, face au verdict de la population toute entière et de l’histoire. Il est encore temps de vous ressaisir, de rendre dignement le tablier afin de permettre aux forces politiques et sociales du pays de se positionner, de moins gaspiller leurs maigres ressources, de se forger un chemin vers une sortie durable et sans violence de la crise. Personne ne pourra vous reprocher d’avoir essayé d’être utile à la patrie et surtout d’avoir su à temps vous retirer pour éviter à la nation haïtienne cette funeste régression et dégringolade. Et ce sera tout à votre honneur.</span></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11872"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11872"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Dunois Erick Cantave</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11851"></div><div class="" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443328999383_11874"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Port-au-Prince , le 26 septembre 2015</span></div><div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div class="signature"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;">KONAKOM: Le parti politique moderne pour le renouveau d'Haiti </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv4582413187class yiv4582413187yui_3_16_0_1_1408376407429_48950" target="_blank" href="http://mopod.org.ht/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1408472976947_31329" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">http://mopod.org.ht/</a></span></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p></div><div style="height: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">__._,_.___</span></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height: 17.079999923706055px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; clear: both;"></div><div id="fromDMARC" style="line-height: 17.079999923706055px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-top: 10px;"></div>Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-78861648674725200742015-09-26T07:48:00.000-07:002015-09-26T07:52:39.180-07:00ONU: 17 objectifs pour un développement durable de la planète Terre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Un nouveau programme mondial audacieux pour éradiquer la pauvreté d’ici à 2030 et poursuivre un avenir durable a été adopté vendredi à l’unanimité par les 193 Etats membres des Nations Unies.</div>
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« Nous embarquons ensemble sur la voie du développement durable, pour nous consacrer collectivement à la poursuite du développement mondial et d’une coopération mutuellement bénéfique, susceptible d’apporter d’énormes gains à tous les pays et toutes les régions du monde », affirme la Déclaration adoptée par les Etats membres.</div>
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Des dizaines de dirigeants mondiaux étaient présents vendredi dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, à New York, pour participer au Sommet des Nations Unies sur le développement durable, qui se déroulera jusqu’au 27 septembre et s’est ouvert avec cette adoption formelle d’un nouveau programme de développement pour les 15 prochaines années.</div>
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« L’adoption historique du nouveau Programme de développement durable, qui s’appuie sur 17 objectifs globaux, a été accueillie par une ovation de la part des délégations, qui comprenaient un grand nombre des plus de 150 dirigeants mondiaux amenés à s’exprimer dans le cadre du Sommet », s’est félicité un porte-parole des Nations Unies dans un communiqué de presse.</div>
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Intitulé « Transformer notre monde : le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 », le programme comporte 17 Objectifs de développement durable (ODD), conçus pour parachever d’ici à 2030 les efforts entamés dans le cadre des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (<a href="http://www.un.org/fr/millenniumgoals/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c75ba; text-decoration: none;">OMD</a>). Ces derniers avaient été lancés en 2000 en vue notamment d’éradiquer l’extrême pauvreté dans le monde d’ici 2015.</div>
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« Ce nouveau Programme est une promesse faite par les dirigeants aux gens du monde entier. C’est une vision universelle, intégrée et transformative pour un monde meilleur », a salué le Secrétaire général de l’ONU, Ban Ki-moon, dans un discours prononcé à l’ouverture du Sommet.</div>
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A bien des égards, en effet, les 17 ODD et leurs 169 cibles ont une portée plus large que les 8 OMD et leurs 21 cibles. Là où ces derniers étaient centrés principalement sur des thématiques sociales, les ODD couvrent l’ensemble des dimensions du développement durable, à savoir la croissance économique, l’intégration sociale et la protection de l’environnement.</div>
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Du point de vue géographique, les OMD ciblaient essentiellement les pays en développement, en particulier les plus pauvres, alors que les ODD seront applicables aussi bien aux pays riches qu’aux pays pauvres. Le premier d’entre eux, par exemple, l’ODD N°1, se propose d’éradiquer la pauvreté sous toute ses formes, et non pas seulement l’extrême pauvreté.</div>
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« C’est un Programme pour les gens, pour mettre fin à la pauvreté sous toutes ses formes », a ajouté le chef de l’ONU, tout en avertissant que le véritable test de l’engagement des Etats envers ce Programme à l’horizon 2030 sera sa mise en œuvre.</div>
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« Nous devons agir, tous et partout ; ces 17 Objectifs de développement durable sont notre guide, une liste de tâches pour les gens et la planète, et un modèle de réussite », a déclaré Ban Ki-moon.</div>
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L’adoption officielle du Programme est intervenue peu après que le Pape François, chef de l’Eglise catholique, s’est adressé à l’Assemblée générale.</div>
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« L’adoption du Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 au Sommet mondial, qui commencera aujourd’hui même, est un signe important d’espoir », a déclaré le souverain pontife, dont il s’agissait de la première visite au siège de l’ONU, avant de céder la place aux stars de la chanson Shakira et Angélique Kidjo pour un court concert dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée, suivi de d’un message d’espoir adressé par la lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix, Malala Yousafzai.</div>
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Egalement présent à l’ouverture du Sommet, le Président de l’Assemblée générale, Mogens Lykketoft, a qualifié le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 d’« ambitieux » dans sa lutte contre les injustices, la pauvreté, la marginalisation et la discrimination.</div>
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« Nous reconnaissons la nécessité de réduire les inégalités et de protéger notre maison commune en changeant les modes non durables de consommation et de production. Et, nous identifions le besoin impérieux de s’attaquer à la politique de division, la corruption et l’irresponsabilité qui alimentent les conflits et freinent le développement », a déclaré M. Lykketoft.</div>
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La cérémonie d’adoption était présidée par le Premier ministre danois Lars Løkke Rasmussen et le Président ougandais Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Tous deux ont souligné les succès des OMD et la nécessité de mettre en œuvre ce nouveau programme de manière complète.</div>
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-71108375024125926612015-09-25T21:33:00.001-07:002015-09-25T21:39:29.398-07:00Kote plan kandida yo? Par Stanley Lucas<div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L46x6Hs3Y-s/VgYhftaxYtI/AAAAAAAAAg8/08q5M2YqnIs/s640/blogger-image-606465129.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L46x6Hs3Y-s/VgYhftaxYtI/AAAAAAAAAg8/08q5M2YqnIs/s640/blogger-image-606465129.jpg"></a></div><br><font>Nan eleksyon Prezidansyèl sa eske nou konnen ke se sèlman 3 kandida sou 54 ki distribye plan detaye de devloman yo pou 2016-2021? </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>Boss mason pa kapab konstwui san tiwèl e pastè pa kapab prèche san labib. Kandida pou Prezidan ki pa prezante plan pou 5 lane pral kraze peyi. Si ou pa gen plan ou sou blof! Kisa jounalis yo ap regle? </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>Poukisa jounalis yo pa mande kandida pou Prezidan yo kopi plan yo pou 2016 rive 2021e poste plan sa yo sou website, paj Facebook e Twitter yo? Kijan yo pral chanje peyi a si pa gen plan? </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>Kandida ki pibliye plan yo se Mathias Pierre, Sauveur Pierre Etienne et Jovenel Moise. Steven Benoit pibliye yon teks sou website li men se pa yon plan de devloman ke li ye. Oken lot kandida yo pa gen anyen. Maryse Narcisse nan yon enteviou ke li bay Haiti Libre pale d yon plan de ke li genyen men peson poko wel ki detay ki ladanl. Apa sa tout lot yo se voye monte. </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>Nap tann plan yo pou analize yo ke prezante kisa ki serye andedan yo e kisa ki blof e pa serye.</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(55, 62, 77); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#373e4d" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.079999923706055px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanley Lucas</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-54437643511570295782015-09-25T19:19:00.001-07:002015-09-25T19:19:10.875-07:00L'entrée de certains produits dominicains interdite par voie terrestre<div style="background-color: white; color: #3e3939; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilson Laleau a pris le contre-pied de cs declarations, alors qu'il s’exprimait au terme d’une rencontre entre le gouvernement et les membres du secteur privé des affaires autour de la situation économique du pays et notamment dans le but d’évaluer l’implication de la mesure prise par le Ministère de "l'Economie et des Finances (MEF).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Le ministre Laleau a fait savoir que le transport de ces produits par voie maritime ne va pas causer une hausse des prix, faisant savoir que, depuis le début de l’année, de nombreux producteurs dominicains utilisent les liens maritimes sans que cela n’affecte les prix.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Nous sommes déterminés à régulariser les échanges commerciaux avec la République dominicaine afin d’élargir l’assiette fiscale et favoriser la création d’emplois dans le pays, , a-t-il dit, .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pour sa part, le ministre du Commerce et de l’industrie Jude Hervey Day a assuré que son équipe s'accroche à sa mission consistant entre autres, à assurer le contrôle de qualité des produits qui entrent dans le pays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Le ministère du commerce est également l’organe chargé d’identifier les meilleures structures d’approvisionnement des produits appelés à satisfaire les besoins locaux", a dit M. Day, faisant savoir que les mesures annoncées récemment par le ministère de l’économie et des finances lui permettront d’avancer dans cette direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3e3939;">Le coordonnateur du Forum économique du secteur Privé, Grégory Brant, a, lui mis en garde contre ce qu'il appelle "la désinformation et l’intoxication de l’opinion par la presse dominicaine"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grégory Brant félicite les producteurs dominicains et les importateurs haïtiens qui, déjà, respectent, a-t-il dit, les décisions du gouvernement haïtien en utilisant les couloirs maritimes déjà existants pour l’acheminement de produits en Haïti.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;">Et, jusqu’à ce que Martelly lui ait accordé un temps d’écoute, Jovenel Moise n’a jamais lâché prise. Il marchait toujours, sous ses bras, son aventure, son projet en zone franche, qu’une firme dénommée Agritrans devra faire voir le jour, et ainsi avec pour mission de faire renaitre l’espoir dans les yeux et dans le cœur des habitants de la métropole du Nord. </span><span lang="FR" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;">Le Président Martelly l’a finalement cru, l’a soutenu et a fait du projet de Jovenel Moïse, un schéma à suivre pour permettre à ce pays de se réessayer dans l’agriculture. Recours aujourd’hui inévitable, si l’on veut sortir du marasme économique. Il s’est rendu sur place, rempli d’espoir, pour prendre part, gouter au plaisir des gens du Nord qui vont voir pour une première fois des containers de bananes partir directement de leur département en direction de l’Allemagne.</span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;">Le jeune champion, Jovenel Moïse, actuel candidat à la Présidence, vient aujourd’hui de prouver à Martelly qu’il avait raison de croire en lui. Il vient de dire au monde que le leadership des citoyens peut encore faire rêver ce pays. Le premier ministre Evans Paul était aussi là, pour voir de ses yeux, l’embarcation de bananes. C’est un acte doublement fort, puisqu’il vient également dévoiler la méchanceté des politiques qui accusent de mauvais comportements à l’égard des autres, des jeunes notamment.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;">Pourquoi faut-il avoir été son camarade de classe pour être à l’écoute de l’autre ? Non, Martelly a aujourd’hui et surtout avec cet exemple de leadership, le mérite d’avoir été à l’écoute de quelqu’un qu’il n’avait jamais rencontré de sa vie. Un homme jeune, dévoué, qui, en voyant l’état de délabrement des provinces et la désertification de la terre, a voulu remettre les paysans haïtiens au travail.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;">C’est ainsi que, après plusieurs mois de travaux, de stratégies, doublés d’une vision solide de la terre et des Haïtiens, le premier container de bananes locales vient de quitter Haïti, en direction de l’Allemagne. Il atteindra les côtes de ce pays dans environ 10 jours. Un deuxième bateau de 50 containers fera la semaine suivante le même trajet et ainsi de suite, jusqu’à permettre à Haïti d’exporter chaque semaine vers l’Allemagne une cargaison de 150 containers de bananes.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;">Cette vaste opération n’est pas sans conséquence sur l’économie haïtienne. Grâce à ce surplus de bananes sur le marché, elle va ainsi permettre à Haïti de diminuer le coût du régime qui passera de 250 à 150 gourdes. Ainsi, Haïti va pouvoir régénérer son économie et faire valoir d’autres nouvelles productions et ainsi de suite, dans les domaines de la culture de la terre, de la pêche, de l’élevage, des transformations de toutes sortes, en vue de l’exportation et de la consommation locale.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">P-au-P, 15 juin 2015 [AlterPresse] --- Les investissements prévus dans le budget rectificatif 2014-2015 seraient insuffisants pour favoriser la croissance économique et la creation d’emplois durables en Haiti, analysent des experts haïtiens, environ 3 mois après la promulgation de la loi des finances modifiée.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Depuis plus de 20 ans, le budget national n’a jamais fait avancer économiquement le pays en raison du fait que les fonds d’investissements proviennent en grande partie de l’aide internationale, explique l’économiste et professeur d’Université, Eddy Labossière, dans une interview accordée à AlterPresse.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dans un contexte marqué par une forte décote de la gourde, Labossière indique que plus de 60 % des fonds de ce budget sont pris en charge par la coopération internationale. Le plus souvent, beaucoup de ces montants ne sont pas décaissés.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dans le budget rectificatif 2014-2015, les investissements ont chuté de 16.5 % alors qu’une légère modification a été apportée aux dépenses de fonctionnement à moins de 3 %.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">« En Haïti, le budget n’a jamais été utilisé comme un véritable outil de politique publique, mais comme un budget de fonctionnement », regrette Labossière pour qui « les résultats attendus vont être encore négatifs » après l’amputation du budget de 10% des fonds attendus suite à sa révision.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Passant de 122. 6 milliards de gourdes à 109. 7 milliards de gourdes, l’enveloppe budgétaire a connu une variation de 10. 7 % de moins, soit une réduction de 12, 9 milliards de gourdes par rapport au budget initial.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Le taux de croissance réelle de l’économie, évalué à 4, 6% dans le budget initial est revu à la baisse, soit à 2, 5% dans le budget rectificatif 2014-2015.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Le budget de l’exercice 2013-2014 était de 118 milliards de gourdes.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">La réduction actuelle de l’enveloppe budgétaire résulte de la baisse des ressources provenant des fonds Petro Caribe, la réalisation des prochaines élections durant l’année 2015 pour les collectivités locales, les 119 députes et les deux tiers du sénat de la République, a expliqué le gouvernement.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Depuis le 12 janvier 2015, le parlement haïtien est dysfonctionnel. Seulement dix sénateurs sont restés en fonction.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ce parlement est « budgétivore », reconnait Eddy Labossière rappelant que les dépenses mensuelles pour un sénateur s’élèvent à 14 mille dollars américains et pour un député à 12 mille dollars.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adopté en conseil des ministres le 18 mars 2015, le budget rectificatif (2014-2015) a été promulgué dans le journal officiel Le Moniteur du vendredi 27 mars 2015, sans passer par le parlement.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">La promotion de la croissance, de l’emploi, du développement des Petites moyennes entreprises (Pme) constituent, entre autres, les grandes orientations et priorités du gouvernement dans ce budget révisé.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ce budget ne va rien changer aux conditions de travail des ouvriers et ouvrières, qui demeurent « très graves », déplore Reginald Jules, membre de la direction du syndicat « Antèn ouvriye » (Antenne ouvrière).</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">« Le traitement salarial et physique des ouvriers est inhumain. A chaque forme de protestation ouvrière pour exiger de meilleures conditions de traitement, les patrons augmentent leurs travaux en guise de sanctions », dénonce le syndicaliste.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Il souligne la nécessité d’un accompagnement en santé ainsi qu’un ajustement salarial pour les travailleurs haïtiens à cause de l’augmentation du coût de la vie.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Il faut, à présent, plus de 50 gourdes pour un dollar américain alors que ce taux de change était de 47 gourdes en décembre 2014.</span><br />
<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Insuffisance d’investissements et impacts des politiques néolibérales</strong><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Les faibles ressources investies par l’Etat ne sont pas capables de permettre la création d’emplois durables, estime l’économiste Camille Chalmers et également directeur exécutif de la Plateforme haïtienne de plaidoyer pour un développement alternatif (Papda) qui dit observer un ralentissement des activités économiques.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Le gouvernement haïtien a préféré opter pour une application des politiques néolibérales qui ont causé du tort au pays depuis plusieurs années, fustige-t-il.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Les dirigeants haïtiens ont parié sur les secteurs externes et non locaux, l’interventionnisme en économie et la sous-traitante, incapables, dit-il, de conduire à une croissance économique durable.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Les conditions ne sont pas réunies pour attirer de bons investissements privés, déplore Chalmers appelant le gouvernement à miser, de préférence, sur l’épargne nationale et réduire la dépendance économique par rapport à l’extérieur sur le plan alimentaire.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">L’économiste plaide pour une réorientation des liquidités vers des investissements productifs dans l’agriculture et l’industrie.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ceci contribuerait, selon lui, à créer beaucoup plus d’emplois dans une perspective de rompre avec la déprime et le désespoir de la plupart des jeunes condamnés au chômage. [emb kft gp apr <a href="tel:15/06/2015 13" style="text-decoration: none;">15/06/2015 13</a> : 30]</span></div>
Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-41321223107017773252015-06-16T07:39:00.000-07:002015-06-16T07:39:26.251-07:00Where is the Outrage? – Tenuous Relations of Human Rights and Migration<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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It seems we are at a breaking point with state treatment of Haitian migrants and persons of Haitian descent, particularly in the Dominican Republic and The Bahamas. Beyond the issue of people being rendered stateless, there are disturbing reports about abusive treatment and human rights violations in The Bahamas’ detention center, mass deportations from the Dominican Republic, and the separation of families in both places. Haitian migrants and their children remain some of the most vulnerable people, and this continues to be more evident in the recent changes to immigration enforcement policies in The Bahamas and Dominican Republic. These grave conditions for Haitian migrants and people of Haitian ancestry across the Caribbean bring starkly into focus the tenuous meaning of rights and who gets to access protection. Further, pervasive xenophobic attitudes towards certain migrants, and specifically anti-Haitian sentiment, remain an underlying yet clearly serious concern facing us as a region.</div>
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In the opening months of this year, there were reports of possible lynchings of two Black men in the Dominican Republic. Videos also surfaced of the public humiliation and beating of a Black man and woman, which some have linked to anti-Haitian sentiment on the island (Reginald Dumas, <a href="http://www.trinidadexpress.com/commentaries/On-being-Haitian-295685941.html" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">On Being Haitian</a>, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trinidad & Tobago Express</em>, 10 & 11 March 2015).</div>
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Furthermore, reports from the Bahamas (end of 2014 into 2015) have raised serious concerns about the treatment of Haitian migrants and issues of citizenship. Specifically, these include: the rounding up of Haitian or Haitian descended children and persons (those undocumented as well as those seeking citizenship); the poor and inhumane conditions of the detention facility; reports of abuse by immigration officers; the content of the policy and reforms to immigration law; the deadly slow pace of resolving citizenship for persons who apply at age 18; and the targeting of Haitians in the enforcement of changes in immigration policy.</div>
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While some of these concerns are not new, the enforcement of the new immigration policy has been the source of recent concerns. In November 2014, the Ministry of Immigration in The Bahamas announced its new policy that calls for all non-citizens in the country to carry their passports and proof of residency, while children born to non-citizen parents must have a school permit. Since the enforcement of this policy, there have been reports of mass raids in known Haitian communities, and hundreds of people have been held in an overcrowded detention facility and then deported. This new policy has raised urgent questions about whether it will violate the rights of children – who technically by law are entitled to attend school (every child living in the Bahamas has a right to an education, and the country is also party to the Convention of the Rights of the Child). Children born to non-nationals are not automatically citizens but rather have to apply at 18 for status. While the Bahamas government has insisted that they won’t be “<a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/news/53586-dpm-govt-not-infringing-on-childrens-rights" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">infringing on children’s rights,</a>” official statements have emphasized that the Bahamas will be acting in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that children will also be educated pending decisions on whether they are ‘repatriated’ (this is the terminology used by Bahamian state officials) or allowed to remain on the island.</div>
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But <a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/news/53569-examining-immigration-policy-against-right-to-education" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">it’s unclear how the policy will be enforced</a> and particularly what will happen to children unable to produce a student permit come September.</div>
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Bahamian lawyers and human rights groups have responded to this policy change and immigration enforcement in several ways. Fred Smith, President of the Grand Bahamas Human Rights Association (GBHRA), has led a campaign against the government and called on international human rights agencies to respond. He asserts that the “government’s mass round-up policy is unconstitutional and a flagrant violation of the fundamental concept that individuals are innocent until proven guilty.” Describing the government’s approach as “institutional terrorism, if by that term we mean an inhuman and degrading policy designed to strike fear in the hearts of an entire community,” Smith argues “they are breeding ‘Haitian hatred’, racism and discrimination. It seems The Bahamas is now into ethnic cleansing.” (<a href="http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/local/GBHRA_brands_Bahamas_new_immigration_policy_institutional_terrorism_printer.shtml" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Source</a>)</div>
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While the term ethnic cleansing may seem extreme to some, its use by Fred Smith draws attention to what he names as a ‘shock and awe’ policy. Rather than address immigration issues on a case-by-case basis, since November, migrants in the Bahamas have faced nighttime raids, separation of families, and overcrowding in the detention center. There are widespread reports of abusive treatment of migrants (of women migrants in particular) inside the detention center and during the process of “apprehension” and “deportation.” One incident that received major attention (with several articles in the Bahamas’ <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2014/dec/22/rape-allegation-investigated-senior-officer-immigr/" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tribune</a> </em>and Jamaica’s <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://jamaica-gleaner.com/power/57340" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gleaner</a></em>) was the rape of a Jamaican detainee by a senior immigration officer, who was eventually put on leave.</div>
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This story has raised awareness about some of the issues at the detention center and with the horrific treatment of migrants, and in her case, she was held by immigration even though she had papers (spousal permit); she has brought charges against the state. (<a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/feb/27/alleged-rape-victim-sues-top-government-officials/" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Source</a>) The reports that haven’t received media attention are equally disturbing, as is the silence around what some describe as a targeting of people of Haitian descent and their children. Recently, a Bahamian-born woman of Haitian descent was denied maternal care in the hospital and her child denied access to school (Ava Turnquest, <a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/apr/21/lawyer-claims-pregnant-woman-denied-care-nationali/" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reporting in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tribune</em></a>, 12 & 28 April 2015). She has since filed for legal action over the immigration policy and violation of her and her child’s rights. (<a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/apr/28/bahamian-born-woman-files-legal-action-over-immigr/" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Source</a>)</div>
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The <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> article provoked strong responses in Bahamian newspapers, <a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/news/53539-immigration-ministry-ny-times-article-had-inaccuracies" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">including one </a>that highlights the Minister of Immigration’s dismissal of the article as based on exaggerated claims and accusations from civic activists.</div>
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On 13<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> February 2015, however, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights granted a submission for precautionary measures filed by the Caribbean Institute for Human Rights (ICADH), the International Human Rights Clinic of the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, School of Law, and Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights on behalf of over 200 detainees being held at the Carmichael Road Detention Center in Nassau, The Bahamas. The Commission’s analysis concluded that the situation was serious and urgent and that measures were indeed necessary to protect persons from irreparable harm. And the Commission sent a list of requirements of response and action to the government of the Bahamas (Resolution 4/2015). (See the full text of the resolution <a href="http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/decisions/pdf/2015/PM535-14-EN.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>)</div>
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The Bahamas government was represented by the Minister of State in the Attorney General’s Ministry, who strongly refuted the petitioners’ report, defended Bahamas’ history of respect for human rights, insisted that the state has not violated human rights of migrant persons, and claimed that the detention facilities are in good order with provisions in place to charge officers who violated the rights of detainees. They also informed the Commission that the policy will now include the implementation of a “belonger’s permit” which would allow persons born in the Bahamas without status to stay in the country (i.e. children born in the Bahamas to non-nationals have the right to apply for citizenship at 18). They contested the notion that these children have a “right” to citizenship (since the Bahamas has Jus Sanguinis rules: citizenship is determined by having one or both parents who are citizens and not on birthplace), and they insisting that such children were not being denied the right to attend school; hence the new policy would not be violating any rights. The state also offered an invitation to the Commission for a country visit.</div>
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Not surprisingly, these two reports offered strikingly different understandings of what is happening on the ground to migrant persons and to people of Haitian descent in particular. Further, they disclose very different views on “rights” to citizenship, how this actually works in the Bahamas and who is targeted by these new policies and possible changes to immigration law. What is clear, regardless of the position of the Government of the Bahamas, is that migrant persons of Haitian descent are the most vulnerable and there are serious and urgent concerns about the detention center and how the policy is being enforced.</div>
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After the representatives of the Bahamian state presented their report, Tracy Robinson, Commissioner and country rapporteur for the Bahamas, specifically called for state response to the following concerns: official efforts to prevent violence against migrants; the granting of due process and interpreters for migrants being detained; issues at the detention center in terms of overcrowding and ill treatment; and access to the detention center for human rights defenders. Noting that “[t]he state has a duty to exercise due diligence to prevent the violence as well, not simply to prosecute it when it happens,” Robinson also raised important questions in relation to the standing of the new policy viz existing immigration law and how the Bahamian state would address concerns raised about violations of rights and citizenship.</div>
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In her concluding remarks, IACHR President Rose-Marie Antoine reprised the Commission’s concerns regarding the criminalizing of persons through this new immigration policy and the targeting of persons suspected of being non-nationals. She asked about the use of enforcement and exactly how the policy/law will be implemented and the use of detention for persons who do not have passports on them. The gender dimension of citizenship was also explicitly identified as bearing specifically on ways in which this new immigration policy/law would render persons “stateless” (a child born in the Bahamas with a Bahamian father is automatically granted citizenship, whereas if a Bahamian woman is married to a non-national, their child is not granted citizenship but rather has to “apply” at 18). The state was asked to respond to these issues and allegations in writing and in due course. The official Bahamian response was brief, noting that the overcrowding of the detention center was “situational,” insisting that the Bahamian Government does provide due process for migrants, and indicating that a written report that responded to the other queries would be forthcoming. (The hearing is available on the OAS website: <a href="http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/multimedia/sesiones/154/default.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>)</div>
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Meanwhile, following the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tribunal Ruling 168-13</strong> and change of citizenship policy in September 2013, in May 2014, the DR passed Law 169-14 that established “A special set of rules for persons born in the national territory who are irregularly registered in the Dominican Civil Registry, and rules about naturalization.” The regularization plan, originally giving people just 18 months to request Dominican citizenship for children born to undocumented migrants, came to an end in February and was extended for another 90 days (amidst opposition from the right) to 15th June 2015. The government has announced that no more extensions will be granted. When the final deadline is reached, it means that overnight thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent will be rendered without status or the right to stay in the country of their birth. This is widely regarded as a violation of rights to citizenship as birthright is stripped away from people who are most vulnerable (Haitian migrants, Haitian Dominicans, and their children). And with this policy change, the DR will be able to legally deport Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian ancestry – which they have already been doing for years – even as they depend on their labor and exploit their limbo/stateless status. The Dominican government has claimed that there would be no mass deportations and the approach will be on a case by case basis; in late May it was reported that the foreign affairs minister of Haiti (Lener Reneaud) met his counterpart from the Dominican Republic (Andrés Navarro), to finalise a “Protocol for deportations” (thanks to Arturo Victoriano for clarification and translation).</div>
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All this has happened in spite of CARICOM’s response and civil organizations’ protests and petitions. And the June 15 deadline looms, with barely any notice across the region and internationally (with the exception of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/03/dominicans-citizenship_n_6606336.html" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the Huffington Post</a> and independent media.</div>
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In 2013 and 2014, there was a lot more attention to the issue; several critiqued the ruling and offered context for understanding the tenuous history and relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (for example, see <a href="http://americasquarterly.org/content/dominican-republic-and-haiti-shared-view-diaspora" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Richard Andre’s interview with Junot Diaz and Edwidge Danticat</a> in Americas Quarterly, and <a href="http://www.myriamchancy.com/apartheid-in-the-americas-are-you-haitian/" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Myriam Chancy’s powerful reflection</a>published and shared on several sites including CaribVoices, The Haitian Times, and Repeating Islands, among others.). The authors of this article have both written about these issues (including Angelique Nixon’s article titled, “<a href="http://groundationgrenada.com/2013/11/05/limbo-citizens-or-stateless-people-human-rights-migration-and-the-future-for-dominicans-of-haitian-ancestry/" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Limbo Citizens or Stateless People?: Human Rights, Migration, and the Future for Dominicans of Haitian Ancestry</a>“, carried on Groundation Grenada’s website, and Alissa Trotz in two columns for the Stabroek Newspaper in Guyana). Following a successful campaign by activists/academics/academic-activists in the region and diaspora, CARICOM denounced the ruling and also delayed the DR’s bid for entry into the regional organization.</div>
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As Myriam Chancy argues, the ruling creates and reinforces civic death for Dominicans of Haitian descent as well as Haitian migrants across the region (and for Haitian migrants around the region): “This issue of creating civic death is what we need to most be alarmed about in the face of increasing social and economic inequality, forced migration, and environmental challenges facing the region; we are living in uncertain and dangerous times. And while we don’t want to support or replicate neocolonial paradigms upon each other in the region, we must find ways to hold each other accountable for any violations of human rights; and I would further argue that we must find more ethical ways to deal with migration and rights across the region, especially for our Haitian brothers and sisters” (“Apartheid in the Americas: Are You Haitian?” 24 October 2013). Chancy’s poignant remarks resonate even more clearly in this moment.</div>
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The ruling and subsequent enforcement of change in citizenship status have been widely regarded as a political and humanitarian crisis in the DR. And with the recent abuses and mass roundups of Haitians in the Bahamas (a situation that CARICOM seems unable to find a response to, despite being in the country for its 26<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Inter-Sessional meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government where an explicit commitment was made to the organization’s ongoing no business as usual policy with the DR), it seems the region is far from finding more ethical ways to deal with migration and citizenship rights. What is striking indeed, is the similarity not only in the rhetoric between the Bahamian and Dominican governments but also in the solutions being proposed.</div>
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While there has been some media attention to these issues across the region, and even some international reports, there has been a surprising silence and lack of outrage. Certainly, human rights violations around immigration and detention centers are far from new news. But there are several troubling questions that should prompt our concern, outrage and commitment to change. It is clear that people of Haitian descent continue to be targeted unjustly and overtly in new immigration policies as they are scapegoated as “the problem” underlying social ills in various contexts (as migrant communities so often are). It is also clear that women migrants in detention need serious and dire attention, as more reports of violations at the detention center in the Bahamas have surfaced in the past few months (from the case of the Jamaican woman who filed charges in April to most <a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2015/jun/09/immigration-officer-leave-after-accusation/" style="border: 0px; color: #772124; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">recently reported</a>in the Tribune on 9th June, another immigration officer was suspended following an accusation and investigation of “inappropriate conduct.”)</div>
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With recovery efforts still underway in post earthquake Haiti, this assault on migrants and persons of Haitian ancestry urgently underscores just how much work there is left to do across our Caribbean. It is time to call out anti-Haitian sentiments and xenophobia that underpin much of the migration and citizenship issues in the region. It is time to forge and create responses that are regional in focus and promote solidarity and solutions grounded in social justice. It is time to find better ways of dealing with migration, citizenship, regional movement, and labor. And it is time to develop stronger and intersectional approaches to these issues that take into account class, gender and other differences and inequality.</div>
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We must keep visioning a just future – one with dignity and freedom for Haiti and Haitians all over the world, for all migrants who have similar experiences, for the Caribbean and all Caribbean people – in which we come together across our differences to create and build regional solidarity.</div>
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Haiti Connexion Networkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783162644486353232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341181861231735418.post-22106528048635910642015-03-20T19:24:00.000-07:002015-03-20T19:24:21.444-07:00Role of Hillary Clinton’s brother in Haiti gold mine raises eyebrowsBy Kevin Sullivan and Rosalind S. Helderman March 20 at 12:26 PM <br />
MORNE BOSSA, Haiti — Drive down the rutted dirt road a couple of miles to the guardhouse, then hike 15 minutes up to the overgrown hilltop, and there it is: a piece of 3 1/2 -inch-wide PVC pipe sticking out of the ground.<br />
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This is what, at least for the time being, a gold mine looks like.<br />
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It also has become a potentially problematic issue for Hillary Rodham Clinton as she considers a second presidential run, after it was revealed this month that in 2013 her brother was added to the advisory board of the company that owns the mine.<br />
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Tony Rodham’s involvement with the mine, which has become a source of controversy in Haiti because of concern about potential environmental damage and the belief that the project will primarily benefit foreign investors, was first revealed in publicity about an upcoming book on the Clintons by author Peter Schweizer.<br />
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In interviews with The Washington Post, both Rodham and the chief executive officer of Delaware-based VCS Mining said they were introduced at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative — an offshoot of the Clinton Foundation that critics have long alleged invites a blurring of its charitable mission with the business interests of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their corporate donors.<br />
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VCS Mining has been taking samples via this piece of PVC pipe sticking out of the ground on a hillside in Morne Bossa, Haiti. (Andres Martinez Casares/For The Washington Post)<br />
Asked whether he attends CGI meetings to explore personal business opportunities, Rodham responded, “No, I go to see old friends. But you never know what can happen.”<br />
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All sides deny that the Clintons had any role in Rodham’s appointment to the VCS advisory board.<br />
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Rodham said he has not been involved in any other deals through connections made at CGI. He said that he has never spoken to his sister or her husband about the Haiti project and that he does not think VCS chief executive and president Angelo Viard, a Democratic donor, approached him because of his family ties. Rodham declined to say who introduced him to Viard; Viard said he could not remember.<br />
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“I’m a very accomplished person in my own right,” Rodham said. He said his work with the company is to try to find investors, which he said has been challenging because of a lack of interest in Haiti.<br />
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“I raise money for a lot of people,” he said. “That’s what I basically do.”<br />
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Rodham, a former repo man, prison guard and private detective, has long been a source of controversy for the Clintons. Among other things, he and his brother, Hugh, caused consternation in the Clinton White House in 1999 for trying to operate a hazelnut-processing business in the Republic of Georgia with political opponents of the Georgian president, who was a U.S. ally at the time.<br />
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VCS Mining’s collected samples of rocks are bagged on the hillside in Morne Bossa. (Andres Martinez Casares/For The Washington Post)<br />
[Tony Rodham linked to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe ]<br />
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Viard said that he paid to become a member of CGI so he could attend two of the organization’s meetings, and that he met Rodham at a gathering in 2012. (Foundation officials said Viard paid a $20,000 membership fee in 2013.)<br />
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“You try to be a member so you can meet people in the same industry,” Viard said. He said he attended CGI as “a pure marketing operation.”<br />
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He said he ultimately stopped attending CGI meetings after realizing that they were largely designed for charities to mingle with possible donors. He said he thinks commitments made at CGI have done a lot of good in the developing world.<br />
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Rodham joined the board in October 2013, nine months after Hillary Clinton stepped down as secretary of state. Viard said he put Rodham on the board not because of his family connections, but because he worked for a firm, Gulf Coast Funds Management, that had access to investors.<br />
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Viard said that he and Rodham never discussed the Clintons, and that he never talked to the Clintons about Rodham. A spokesman for the Clinton Foundation said that Bill Clinton does not know Viard, and a spokesman for Hillary Clinton said she also does not know him.<br />
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In December 2012, VCS won one of the first two gold-mining permits the Haitian government had issued in more than 50 years. The project was immediately slammed by members of the Haitian Senate, who called it a potential environmental disaster and “a waste of resources.” The backlash caused the government to put the permits on hold.<br />
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Viard stressed that Rodham was not involved in the effort to win the permit from the Haitian government, which was granted months before Rodham joined the board.<br />
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He said Rodham was compensated with stock options that will not vest unless the project is a success. He said Rodham has not landed any investors, adding, “It sounds like people were not interested in Haiti.”<br />
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Rodham confirmed that he has received stock options in VCS and that they have not yet vested, saying, “Never seen ’em.”<br />
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“I’m just trying to help him out a little bit. If it ever accomplishes anything, great,” Rodham said of Viard, adding that the people of Haiti “got a bad deal” — saddled with poverty and then hit in 2010 by a devastating earthquake — and that he hoped the gold mine could help in its recovery.<br />
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The Clintons have been longtime advocates for development in Haiti, especially since the earthquake. Bill Clinton, as the United Nations’ special envoy to the nation, and Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, were primary forces in the emergency relief response and later efforts to create long-term development plans for the ravaged country.<br />
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But the Clintons’ image in Haiti has slipped in recent months as Haitians increasingly complain that Clinton-backed projects have often helped the country’s elite and international business investors more than they have helped poor Haitians.<br />
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Defenders of the Clintons call such criticism untrue and unfair and largely pressed by the Clintons’ political enemies. They argue that Clinton-funded programs have brought millions of dollars in investment to Haiti and have created jobs for thousands of Haitians.<br />
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But news that a Clinton family member is helping the mining company attract more foreign investors has deepened suspicion.<br />
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“Rodham is an independent guy, but this is tricky; it’s not a good sign for him to be on the board of a mining company here in Haiti,” said Leslie Voltaire, a former Haitian government official who worked closely with the Clintons after the earthquake. “The Clintons are seen as being in power here. You have to be very cautious that your family does not intervene in business here.”<br />
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Jean-Max Bellerive, a former prime minister and a potential presidential candidate in elections expected later this year, joined the VCS advisory board at the same time as Rodham.<br />
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When the mine permit was suspended in early 2013, Bellerive said, Viard hired him for $8,000 to help him understand Haitian governmental procedures, as well as to introduce him to Haitian senators and advise him on how to persuade them to support the mine project.<br />
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Bellerive said that Viard offered compensation when he joined the advisory board a few months later, but that he refused it. He said he had mixed feelings about the project because he was worried about potential environmental damage and unsure whether the Haitian government was equipped to regulate such a complex enterprise.<br />
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 17px;">Les autorités dominicaines ont remis, le mardi 20 janvier 2015, un moteur appartenant aux pêcheurs haïtiens. Ce moteur faisait partie d’un lot de matériels de pêche qui ont été confisqués lors de l’opération de la marine dominicaine dans les eaux frontalières haïtiennes, le 2 janvier écoulé. Les autres matériels ont été déjà remis aux pécheurs, a appris le GARR.</strong></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 17px;">Les autorités locales dominicaines ont proposé aux pêcheurs haïtiens d’utiliser le zinc au lieu de se servir d’un filet quand ils doivent pêcher dans la ligne frontalière maritime de la République Dominicaine. Le filet, selon elles, ne fait qu’attraper des poissons qui ne sont pas encore arrivés à maturité.</span></div>
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