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		<title>Tropical Storm IGOR Closes in on Haiti</title>
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		<title>Aristide a parlé au téléphone avec Alvarez  Renta , un grand  voleur  actuellement  en prison, pour avoir détourné des millions de la fameuse  banque qui a fait faillite, BANCREDITO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[8 Septiembre 2010, 12:28 PM Niega tratara que RD ayudara traer Aristide Alvarez Renta conversó por teléfono con el ex mandatario Escrito por: PILAR MORENO (p.moreno@elnacional.com.do) El economista Luis Alvarez Renta negó este miércoles que conversara con el ex presidente haitiano Jean Bertrand Aristide sobre la posibilidad de éste regresar a Haití, con la intervención [...]]]></description>
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<p>8 Septiembre 2010, 12:28 PM</p>
<p>Niega tratara que RD ayudara traer Aristide</p>
<p>Alvarez Renta conversó por teléfono con el ex mandatario</p>
<p>Escrito por: PILAR MORENO (p.moreno@elnacional.com.do)</p>
<p>El economista Luis Alvarez Renta negó este miércoles que conversara con el ex presidente haitiano Jean Bertrand Aristide sobre la posibilidad de éste regresar a Haití, con la intervención del Gobierno dominicano, como reseñara ayer una publicación del diario digital El Siglo 21.com.</p>
<p>No obstante, Alvarez Renta, preso en la cárcel de Najayo desde el 2008, respondió con evasivas las  preguntas sobre si sostiene conversaciones periódicas con el ex gobernante haitiano, que reside en Africa del Sur, desde que fue obligado a renunciar del cargo en febrero del 2004.</p>
<p>“No es cierto”, respondió Alvarez Renta, sobre el tema de la supuesta conversación con el ex-jefe del Estado haitiano, de 57 años de edad.</p>
<p>“No voy a entrar en detalles sobre eso”, contestó a la pregunta sobre si sostiene conversaciones telefónicas con Aristide.</p>
<p>Más adelante, respondió “No he tenido conversaciones con Aristide en la que haya planteado venir aquí”.</p>
<p>El Nacional se comunicó con Alvarez Renta en su teléfono y le dijo que posee una copia de  la transcripción de su conversación telefónica con Aristide.</p>
<p>Inmediatamente, el economista respondió que “Si existe (la trancripción), léala a ver si dice eso”.</p>
<p>“Fuentes de El Siglo 21.com revelaron esta tarde (ayer) que Aristide mantiene conversaciones con su asesor financiero, Luis Alvarez Renta, recluido en Najayo y con quien habría tratado la posibilidad de conseguir la intervención del Gobierno dominicano para retornar a Haití”, indica la publicación.</p>
<p>El Siglo 21.com afirma que una copia de la transcripción de esa conversación está en manos de las autoridades del Ministerio de Relaciones exteriores del país.</p>
<p>El texto titulado “Conversación entre el expresidente de Haití, Jean Bertrand Aristide y el recluso de Najayo, Luis Alvarez Renta es confuso, tiene muchas interrupciones  y hasta faltas ortográficas.</p>
<p>En uno de los  párrafos del texto en cuestión, Alvarez Renta pregunta a Aristide: “Presidente, si por ejemplo el Gobierno de  Estados Unidos tuviera interés de conversar con usted el tema relacionado con Haití y piden una entrevista usted cree que halla problemas para usted discutir esos temas”.</p>
<p>Aristide responde: “No, no. Mi posición  en cuanto a Estados Unidos es clara. Es que yo siempre he querido diálogo. Tú eres testigo en aquel tiempo. Hasta hoy mi opinión no ha cambiado, es la misma, creo en el diálogo”.</p>
<p>Alvarez Renta contestó que “Lo que estoy buscando es una forma de que usted tenga una manera de una conversación fluida sobre estos temas, porque ellos tienen interés en este asunto. Ellos tienen mucho interés de que ésto suceda, para que usted lo sepa”.</p>
<p>Agrega que “Ellos están muy interesados formalmente y así se lo han manifestado al Gobierno dominicano y ya oficialmente”.</p>
<p>Aristide responde, en un confuso párrafo de palabras cortadas, que “puedes pasarle un mensaje a ellos de lo que acabo de decir. Estoy totalmente dispuesto a buscar una solución a través del diálogo y compromiso con los actores de los Estados Unidos. El   actor principal o de los actores principales”.</p>
<p>Preocupado por su salud</p>
<p>En  el texto en cuestión  Alvarez Renta le habría preguntado a Aristide si éste no tiene la oportunidad “de hacerle llegar al presidente (Leonel Fernández)un mensaje de que está preocupado por mi salud y de que desearía que me dejaran viajar a los Estados Unidos a operarme”.</p>
<p>Atistide responde que aprovechará cualquier oportunidad para hacerle llegar ese mensaje a Fernández</p>
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		<title>PREVAL PULLS THE PLUG!!  THE OLD &#8220;CREATE TENSION BY CUTTING POWER&#8221; TRICK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 8, 2010 President Rene Preval has given orders to reduce the supply of electricity to his people. He hopes this will create additional tension in an already tense society. Like a guy throwing matches into an open barrel of high-octane gasoline, Preval is looking for, and waiting for an explosion to justify cancellation or [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>President Rene Preval has given  orders to reduce the supply of electricity to his people. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>He hopes this will create  additional tension in an already tense society. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Like a guy throwing matches into an  open barrel of high-octane gasoline, Preval is looking for, and waiting for an  explosion to justify cancellation or delay of the November elections.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Preval should remember that the  pyromaniac is sometimes engulfed in the explosion.</strong></p>
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		<title>KURZBAN CRIES WOLF- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY IRA J. KURZBAN ira@kkwtlaw.com Imagine if the Federal Election Commission in the United States disqualified the Democratic and Republican parties from the 2012 presidential election and declared that only candidates of minor parties could run. No one would consider it a fair election, and certainly the people of the United States would rise up, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><a rel="attachment wp-att-6848" href="http://www.haitian-truth.org/kurzban-cries-wolf-added-commentary-by-haitian-truth/picture-11-30/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6848" title="Picture 11" src="http://www.haitian-truth.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Picture-11-300x274.png" alt="" width="300" height="274" /></a>BY IRA J. KURZBAN</h3>
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<p><!--  end /production/story/credit_line_format.comp -->Imagine if the Federal Election  Commission in the United States disqualified the Democratic and  Republican parties from the 2012 presidential election and declared that  only candidates of minor parties could run. No one would consider it a  fair election, and certainly the people of the United States would rise  up, claiming the election is unconstitutional and undemocratic.</p>
<p>Yet the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections  in Haiti on Nov. 28 are just that &#8212; unfair, unconstitutional and  undemocratic. The country&#8217;s Provisional Electoral Council, which itself  is not constitutionally composed, is refusing to allow the country&#8217;s  majority party &#8212; Famni Lavalas (Lavalas Family) &#8212; to participate in  the election. Thirteen other legitimate political parties are also being  excluded from parliamentary elections.</p>
<p>The Famni Lavalas  Party, headed by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, won the last  democratic election it was allowed to participate in by overwhelming  margins. In May 2000, when President René Préval was in his first term,  the party won virtually all the seats in the lower house of Parliament,  the state houses and local governments. It won most of the seats in the  Haitian Senate and the presidency. Since the February 2004 coup, Famni  Lavalas has been banned from participating in Haitian politics.</p>
<p>The current Provisional Electoral Council, hand-picked by  President Préval, has fabricated a new eligibility requirement to  disqualify Famni Lavalas from the presidential elections. This new rule  requires that the head of each party register presidential candidates in  person.</p>
<p>President Aristide, however, is exiled in South  Africa where a tacit agreement between many governments keeps him there.  While the great powers have maintained a code of silence concerning  Aristide and his right to return to his own country, they are feverishly  working, with the complicity of the South African government, to ensure  that he does not return. At the same time, the government of Haiti has  refused to renew Aristide&#8217;s passport to allow him to return to Haiti to  register his party.</p>
<p>These political maneuvers are not lost  on Haiti&#8217;s people. While the mainstream media in the United States  focuses on whether Wyclef Jean may run for president or what Sean Penn  thinks of Jean&#8217;s candidacy, the Haitian people refuse to play the fool.  Indeed, they know the presidential election that will be imposed on them  has nothing to do with democracy.</p>
<p>They will, as they did in  2005, only support a presidential candidate who will bring Aristide and  Famni Lavalas back to the Haitian electoral system. With Famni Lavalas  out of the race, the election will have extremely low turnout, which  international &#8220;authorities&#8221; will predictably say is &#8220;the best one can  expect&#8221; given the earthquake.</p>
<p>The result is a <em>faux</em> election that will have lasting consequences for Haiti and the  international community.</p>
<p>It will undermine the stated goal of  the United States and its allies to achieve &#8220;stability&#8221; in Haiti, and  it will undermine the legitimacy and sustainability of a central Haitian  government that is not elected by, but for, the people.</p>
<p>In a  report to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Richard  Lugar, R-Ind., called upon President Préval to restructure the  Provisional Electoral Council and ensure the participation of opposition  parties, including Famni Lavalas. Without this, Lugar argued, the  November elections will lack credibility. Lugar warned, &#8220;The absence of  democratically elected successors could potentially plunge the country  into chaos.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fair, inclusive elections &#8212; that include the  participation of Famni Lavalas and other legitimate political parties  and respect for the right of all exiles to return, including Aristide &#8212;  are essential for establishing a Haitian government with the legitimacy  and capacity to effectively manage the country&#8217;s reconstruction.  Settling for elections that are less than fair and inclusive might seem  expedient in the short term, but in the mid- and long-term accepting  flawed elections will ensure civil strife and political controversy. It  will imperil international community investments in Haiti while leaving  the country vulnerable to the next natural, economic or political  disaster.</p>
<p>If we believe in spreading democracy throughout the  world, it is difficult to understand the code of silence by the United  States and other nations that support the disenfranchisement of the  Haitian people by eliminating the majority party in the election.</p>
<p><em><em> Ira J. Kurzban was the general counsel in the United States for the  Republic of Haiti for 13 years during the Aristide and first Préval  administrations. </em></em></p>
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<p>Ira Kurzban is a piece of poo.</p>
<p>However, much of his comment here is true and should be read. It describes the criminality of the Preval approach to the  electoral process, AND ANALYSIS WHICH SHOULD ALSO EXTEND TO Preval’s theft of the  2000 election.</p>
<p>He is in a situation that one can describe as CRY WOLF, from the story in which a small boy kept his village in tension by  continually warning of wolf attacks. They got so used to the boy’s game that when a  real wolf appeared and he yelled WOLF!!! they did not believe him and he was  eaten by the animal</p>
<p>So it is with Kurzban.</p>
<p>His blind (paid) support for Aristide/Lavalas has left him as a boy who CRIES WOLF!!</p>
<p>His comments about landslide victories, in 2000, are a situation, are the basis for this.</p>
<p>Lavalas stole the 2000 elections in a more blatant way that Preval’s theft of the 2006 ballot.</p>
<p>Aristide/Lavalas were being defeated on a 2 to 1 basis when the National Police rushed polling places, grabbing ballot boxes.  These were stuffed with Lavalas votes. When Preval – as Prime Minister at the  time, demanded CEP president Manus’ signature on the fraud, Manus refused.  Manus was then smuggled out of Haiti and into exile.</p>
<p>Preval’s team was set to kill him.</p>
<p>Manus is living in the Washington, DC area and can attest to this fact.</p>
<p>The electoral fraud, in 2000, was so blatant that the International Community refused to accept the outcome. It was so blatant  that they refused to participate in the presidential vote in 2000.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>So let us avoid the bull shit that the 2000 was a landslide for Lavalas.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>It wasn’t.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>In fact, a free and fair vote would have neutralized Lavalas once and for all.</strong></span></p>
<p>Having said that, I believe it is patently unfair and undemocratic to bar any political persuasion from the vote. Lavalas  represents a sector of Haiti’s community that must be represented.</p>
<p>But please….Kurzban ….let’s cut the crap.</p>
<p>A balanced playing field would tell the truth.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, a balanced field is an impossibility…..a situation for which you are – to a large extent – responsible.</p>
<p>Had you not had your soul bought and paid for by Lavalas, you would still be a jerky little, mediocre immigration attorney with a  “Visa and Master Card Accepted” sign in your waiting room. Your criminality,  with regard to the Haitian people, has made you a rich man.</p>
<p>Much of what you say, in the OPED piece, is true. Unfortunately, we have seen your true philosophy, in the past, and find  it difficult to change this judgment.</p>
<p>Once a whore, always a whore.</p>
<p><strong>As a postscript  &#8211; Aristide can have a passport, at anytime. A check with Haiti’s embassy  in Washinton will reveal the truth since they control issuance of passports outside of Haiti.</strong></p>
<p>They will give Aristide a <em>normal Haitian passport</em>.</p>
<p>Aristide insists upon a <em>Diplomatic Passport</em>, and this is not possible.</p>
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		<title>IL EST POSSIBLE QUE LA TEMPETE GASTON PASSERA SUR HAITI JEUDI.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>NOTE DE PRESSE RESPE      OBJET : Rencontre entre M. Charles-Henri Baker et le Président René Préval</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DATE : 5 Septembre 2010 Le bureau de presse du parti RESPÈ informe le publique en général et la presse en particulier, que M. Charles-Henri Baker, le président du parti, a eu une rencontre dans la mâtiné du dimanche 5 Septembre avec le Président René Préval, à l’invitation de ce dernier, en sa résidence. La [...]]]></description>
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<p>Le bureau de presse du parti RESPÈ informe le publique en général et la presse en particulier,  que M. Charles-Henri Baker, le président du parti,  a eu une rencontre dans la mâtiné du dimanche 5 Septembre  avec le  Président René Préval,  à l’invitation  de ce dernier, en sa  résidence. La rencontre a duré environ 3 heures.</p>
<p>Le Président Préval, durant un long exposé, a indiqué son désir de rencontrer tous les candidats afin d’assurer un climat de convivialité. Il a aussi exprimé sa préoccupation que le prochain changement de gouvernement ne débouche sur des exils, des blocages ou des chasses aux sorciers comme par le passé.</p>
<p>Il a par ailleurs indiqué qu’il avait donné des instructions à tous les ministères de préparer un état des lieux ainsi que tous les dossiers importants, en particulier ceux liés à la CIRH,  afin d’en informer tous les candidats à la présidence.</p>
<p>Le président du parti RESPÈ a attiré l’attention du Président Préval sur la situation déplorable dans laquelle se trouvent les concitoyens regroupés dans les camps d’hébergement. Il a aussi souligné la réponse inefficace du gouvernement au tremblement de terre.</p>
<p>Concernant les prochaines élections, M. Charles-Henri Baker a clairement fait comprendre au  Président Préval  que ses actions et ses inactions, ainsi que celles du Conseil Electoral Provisoire, avaient entrainé  la méfiance générale des acteurs politiques et de la population, et une perte totale de confiance dans le processus électoral.  En conséquence, ces élections allaient devoir se dérouler dans une atmosphère de tension et de  mobilisation contre une éventuelle fraude électorale.</p>
<p>Le président du parti a cité quelques exemples qui ont grandement contribué à soulever la méfiance populaire:</p>
<p> Le traitement opaque durant les élections sénatoriales de 2009 de dossiers de candidats populaires tel que le Père Anick dans l’Artibonite.</p>
<p> Le non respect par le CEP de la loi électorale et la non application de l’article 161.1 traitant de l’identification et la signature des votants, malgré les nombreuses</p>
<p>revendications du parti RESPÈ.</p>
<p> L’influence du pouvoir dans l’obtention de décharge inappropriée et inconstitutionnelle pour tous les membres proches de l’exécutif ; ministres, directeurs généraux etc.…</p>
<p> L’utilisation de deux poids deux mesures par le pouvoir dans sa manière de présenter des objections et des informations afin de disqualifier des candidats non sympathiques au pouvoir tel que M. Wyclef Jean et Mme. Claire Lydie Parent.</p>
<p> L’affaiblissement des institutions faute de nomination notamment celle du Président de la Cour de Cassation.</p>
<p>M. Baker a aussi fait remarquer au Président Préval que pour une deuxième fois, il terminait son mandat avec une crise institutionnelle et un vide parlementaire faute de n’avoir pas réalisé des élections crédibles dans les délais prescrits par la constitution.</p>
<p>Malgré les différentes remarques et réponses du Président Préval, le président du parti RESPÈ lui a fait les recommandations suivantes :</p>
<p>1- Renvoyer le conseil Electoral Provisoire et entamer immédiatement  un processus de consultation avec les institutions concernées afin de former un nouveau Conseil Electoral.</p>
<p>2- Permettre  que la campagne puisse se dérouler sur une période plus longue allant du 27 septembre au 26 novembre.</p>
<p>3- Que la Présidence invite clairement les citoyens à participer en masse aux élections, car l’impression qui se dégage est que l’Exécutif ne le souhaite pas.</p>
<p>Bien que la rencontre se soit terminée cordialement aux environs de midi, M. Charles-Henri Baker n’en est pas ressorti convaincu que des mesures appropriées allaient être prises afin de rétablir la confiance dans le processus électoral.</p>
<p>Nous pensons malgré tout que la voie pour sortir de cette situation passe par une mobilisation et une participation massive aux élections du 28 Novembre. Ce ne sera pas la première fois qu’un Conseil Electoral soumis à un gouvernement en place n’aura pas pu enlever à la population ses choix de Députés, de Sénateurs et de Président.</p>
<p>Evelyne Cheron – Pour le bureau de presse du parti RESPÈ et Charles-Henri Baker</p>
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		<title>REGROUPEMENT RENMEN AYITI   63  Aux Président, Vice-président et Membres de la Cour Supérieure des Comptes Et du Contentieux administratif</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honorables membres de la Cour, Le sieur Jean-Henry CEANT, propriétaire, demeurant et domicilié à Port-au-Prince identifié par ses numéros de Carte d&#8217;identification Nationale (CIN) et d&#8217;Identification fiscale (NIF) 01-01-99-1956-09-00194 et 003-000-397-1 ; agissant en sa qualité de Candidat agréé à la Présidence de la République d&#8217;Haïti, ayant pour avocats constitués, avec élection de domicile au [...]]]></description>
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<p>Le sieur Jean-Henry CEANT, propriétaire, demeurant et domicilié à Port-au-Prince identifié par ses numéros de Carte d&#8217;identification Nationale  (CIN) et d&#8217;Identification fiscale (NIF) 01-01-99-1956-09-00194 et 003-000-397-1 ; agissant en sa qualité de Candidat agréé à la Présidence de la République d&#8217;Haïti, ayant pour avocats constitués, avec élection de domicile au Cabinet du premier avocat sis à l&#8217;angle des rues Aubran et Lambert, au dernier étage du Complexe Galleria Mes Camille LEBLANC, Wilson ESTIME, Thierry MAYARD-PAUL, Gregory MAYARD-PAUL, Stanley LAFORTUNE, Reynold GEORGES et Briel LAGRANDEUR du Barreau de Port-au-Prince dument identifiés, patentés et imposés pour l&#8217;exercice en cours aux Nos 003-020-066-0-, 01-18-99-1956-0500004 ; 414480, A-77062 ; 001-381-102-4, 05-01-99-1960-07-00042, 4051233, 4051234 ; 01-01-99-1958-01-00208, 003-221-221-6 ; 935435982, 436042 ;  003-580-950-2, 541821, 570081 ;</p>
<p>A l&#8217;honneur de vous exposer :</p>
<p>Que Candidat agréé à la Présidence de la République pour les élections du 28 novembre 2010, il a été interpellé par des déclarations faites à la radio que certains autres candidats eux aussi agréés anciens ordonnateurs de l&#8217;Etat, n&#8217;auraient pas reçu les documents de décharge prévus par la Loi et la Constitution.</p>
<p>Cette attitude, Honorables Membres de la Cour, serait préjudiciable et enlèverait au Conseil  Electoral Provisoire le minimum de Crédit qui lui restait, d&#8217;autant qu&#8217;il a appliqué la loi contre d&#8217;autres candidats qui ont eu le tort de n&#8217;être pas soutenus par le pouvoir.</p>
<p>Cette situation, vous en conviendrez, Honorables Membres de la Cour, est préoccupante surtout pour tous ceux et celles qui souhaitent ardemment contribuer à la consolidation des acquis démocratiques en se portant candidats à la Magistrature Suprême.</p>
<p>Afin de rassurer tous ceux et celles qui veulent s&#8217;impliquer dans la bataille électorale, l&#8217;exposant requiert, qu&#8217;il vous plaise, Honorables membres de la Cour, de lui faire tenir, au cas où la Cour aurait délivré des rapports favorables ou arrêts de décharge en faveur des personnes suivantes :</p>
<p>   1. Jacques Edouard ALEXIS: Ancien Premier Ministre, Ancien Ministre de l&#8217;Intérieur, Ancien Ministre de  l&#8217;Education  Nationale. </p>
<p>   1. Yvon NEPTUNE: Ancien Premier Ministre<br />
   2. Lesly VOLTAIRE: Ancien Ministre de l&#8217;Education Nationale, Ancien Ministre des Haïtiens vivant à l&#8217;étranger, Ancien Responsable des activités du 250ème anniversaire de Port-au-Prince    </p>
<p>   1. Yves CHRISTALLIN: Ministre des Affaires Sociales, Ancien Administrateur de l&#8217;APENA, Ancien Administrateur du Ministère de l&#8217;environnement, Ancien questeur de la Chambre des députés, Ancien Président de la Chambre des Députés </p>
<p>   1. Josette BIJOU: Ancien Ministre de la Santé Publique et de la Population<br />
   2. Jude CELESTIN: Directeur Général de : CNE         </p>
<p>Dans l&#8217;attente de cette communication dans un court délai, vu l&#8217;urgence, l&#8217;exposant vous prie d&#8217;agréer, Honorables membres de la Cour, ses patriotiques salutations.</p>
<p>Jean-Henry Céant</p>
<p>Candidat agréé à la Présidence</p>
<p>C.c.  Edmond MULET, Représentant des Nations-Unies en Haïti</p>
<p>         Colin GANDERSON, Représentant de l&#8217;OEA de la CARICOM</p>
<p>         Sénat de la République</p>
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		<title>FLASH-FLASH-FLASH  PREVAL WARNS OF IMMINENT  9.2 EARTHQUAKE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEPTEMBER 6, 2010 DISRUPT THE ELECTORAL PROCESS – CREATE PANIC!! In a brilliant, cynical move, to create fear and tension,   in an already traumatized society, President Rene Preval has initiated a FRIGHTENING rumor to the effect that Haiti is about to be hit with a 9.2 Richter Scale earthquake.  Megaphones were handed out to known Preval [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>DISRUPT THE ELECTORAL PROCESS  – CREATE PANIC!!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>In a brilliant, cynical move, to  create fear and tension,   in an already traumatized society,   President Rene Preval has initiated a  FRIGHTENING rumor to the effect that  <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Haiti is about to be hit with a 9.2   Richter Scale earthquake</span></em>.  Megaphones were handed out  to known Preval agitators who then walked the streets…warning Haitians  of the danger…telling them to get out of their houses and offices…”the  only safety is in the streets….”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>All of this after two days/nights  of a Noah’s Arc  style deluge that left tent camps devastated  – AGAIN!!!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>People with very little have  – yet again – reverted to nothing!!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>This is similar to the  Preval generated rumor, immediately after the January 12 quake, to the  effect that a tsunami was rushing dowen on Port-au-Prince…”The  plaines are already flooded…!!!”   This justified his release of prisoners from the National  Penitentiary….specifically,  about 60 extra hard core Preval gang-leaders he needed to control his  hold on power. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>They  immediately took control  of tent camps, intimidating, raping, murdering, beating the homeless  masses  into submission!!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>This cynical, obscene  Tsunami Rumor sent thousands of terrified Haitians, many injured, up  the hills towards Kenscoff. Haitians died en route while  the  freed gang leaders joined their associates to loot a deserted  downtown  Port-au-Prince as a bonus.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>What else will  Preval and his INITE Party come up with?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>There are no limits to their  criminal  actions.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>There is no conscience.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>All that matters is winning, to  protect their stolen fortunes and avoid justice.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>They  haalready had enough money!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>But  Preval has plundered the <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Petro  Caraibe Fund </span></em>– AGAIN-  giving his candidate Jude Celestin   tens of millions to drown the underfunded democratic  opposition.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>Is there no audit control on  <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Petro Caraibe Funding</span></em>???</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>There is little wonder in the fact  the International Community refuses to pump earthquake reconstruction  funds through Preval  government accounts.  He does not even try  to hide his crimes, carrying the dollars away as the world looks on.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>PREVAL IS ABOUT TO STEAL ANOTHER  ELECTION AS THE WORLD COMMUNITY STANDS  – FROZEN – LIKE A RABBIT IN THE HUNTER’S SPOTLIGHT!!!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>I ASK THE QUESTION  – ALTHOUGH, SADLY, I ALREADY KNOW THE NEGATIVE ANSWER.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>“IS THERE NO DECENCY OR INTEGRITY  OUT THERE??”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITYHAS  PLACED  US IN THIS SITUATION. IT SHOULD NOW HELP US CORRECT THE  RESULTS OF ITS OWN CRIMINAL/UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS THAT STOLE THE  2006 ELECTION FOR PREVAL.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>REMEMBER  – PREVAL HAD 23% OF THE VOTE WHEN  MINUSTAH  (BRAZIL/CHILE) DECIDED TO GIVE HIM 51%, AVOIDING A RUN-OFF  THAT WOULD HAVE SEEN PREVAL DEFEATED.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT THIS??</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>PROBABLY NOTHING.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>SLEEP WELL TONIGHT  – THE PEOPLE OF HAITI WON’T!</strong></span></p>
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		<title>The Haiti and New Zealand Quakes: A Fair Comparison?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis by Michael Reilly At first blush, the earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand on Saturday was the spitting image of the one that ravaged Haiti in January. Each was a powerful magnitude 7.0 quake, and each occurred on a strike-slip fault near a major population center. The similarities end there. Reports out of Christchurch [...]]]></description>
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<p>Analysis by <a href="http://news.discovery.com/contributors/michael-reilly/">Michael  Reilly</a></p>
<p>At first blush, the earthquake  that <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/magnitude-7-1-earthquake-rattles-new-zealand.html">struck  Christchurch, New Zealand on Saturday</a> was the spitting image of the  one that ravaged Haiti in January. Each was a powerful magnitude 7.0  quake, and each occurred on a strike-slip fault near a major population  center.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef013486e883f0970c-pi"><img class="alignleft" title="New Zealand orbit" src="http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef013486e883f0970c-320wi" alt="New Zealand orbit" width="320" height="486" /></a> The  similarities end there. Reports out of Christchurch have been almost  miraculous: Though the city suffered extensive damage, not a single  person out of nearly 400,000 appears to have died. By contrast, the  Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince was flattened, and a quarter of a  million people were killed. <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/haiti-earthquake.html">There  remains immense suffering in the country</a>, nearly eight months later.</p>
<p>There  are two main reasons for this extreme contrast in events: luck, and  preparedness.</p>
<p>First, a closer look at the two quakes reveals an  important geological difference. The epicenter of the Haiti quake was  just 16 miles from downtown Port-au-Prince, while in Christchurch the  tremor struck more than 30 miles away.</p>
<p>&#8220;Seismic waves are just  like sounds waves,&#8221; Peter Yanev, a structural engineer with  California-based Risk Solutions International told Discovery News.  &#8220;Strong ground motion dies out with distance.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added that even  though Christchurch is built on weak soil that can amplify shaking  during an earthquake, he suspects much of the worst of the seismic  energy had dissipated by the time it reached the heart of the city.</p>
<p>New  Zealanders were also lucky because they were at home, asleep in houses  built up to the country&#8217;s stringent building codes when the quake hit at  4:35 a.m. local time. &#8220;The old buildings downtown were the ones that  got beat up, which is what you&#8217;re seeing all those pictures of,&#8221; Yanev  said. &#8220;There&#8217;s some luck involved that people weren&#8217;t around when  parapets were falling off buildings.&#8221;</p>
<p>And of course, there are the  building codes themselves. Straddling the boundary of the Australia and  Pacific tectonic plates, New Zealand <a href="http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/historic-earthquakes/index.html">regularly  experiences powerful, damaging quakes</a>, and the government has made  certain that all modern buildings are built to withstand strong shaking.</p>
<p>In  Haiti, there are no building codes to speak of.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are  basically four places in the world &#8212; California, Japan, Chile, and New  Zealand &#8212; that are serious about earthquake design, and that&#8217;s it,&#8221;  Yanev said.</p>
<p>Of course economic standing has a lot to do with it;  New Zealand is far better off than chronically-impoverished Haiti.</p>
<p>But  Yanev said that even in regions known for their preparedness,  Christchurch&#8217;s success story shouldn&#8217;t be cause for complacency.</p>
<p>&#8220;There  is still a danger that people will get cocky. They look at buildings  performing well in a situation like in Christchurch and they think  &#8216;we&#8217;re good,&#8217; but no, we&#8217;re not,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>In the future, more  powerful quakes than New Zealand&#8217;s latest will strike on <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/californias-beautiful-tectonic-jigsaw.html">the  San Andreas fault in southern California</a>, the Heyward fault in the  San Francisco Bay Area, or <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/dear-seattle-remember-the-chile-quake.html">along  the Cascadia fault near Seattle</a> and Vancouver, as well as in many  other regions of the world. Their epicenters will be closer to city  centers, and the shaking they cause could <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/09/seattle-earthquake-fault.html">exceed  even the most modern building codes</a>.</p>
<p>These scenarios are,  unfortunately, not a question of &#8220;if&#8221;, but &#8220;when&#8221;.</p>
<p>Image: (New  Zealand from orbit, looking North. Large valleys on the South Island are  surface expressions of major faults) NASA via <a href="http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/earthquakes/2">Te Ara</a></p>
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		<title>Interview de Jean-Claude Duvalier par Deborah Ball pour le Wall Street Journal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal Questions were supplied to President Jean-Claude Duvalier in English. He replied in French.  Following the English/French version is one in which we have provided an English/English versions so the entire world can absorb the interview. These are followed by a comment by HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG ***** The interview: 1 .The Swiss and Haitian governments [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a rel="attachment wp-att-6796" href="http://www.haitian-truth.org/interview-de-jean-claude-duvalier-par-deborah-ball-pour-le-wall-street-journal-2/14649-2/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6796" title="The right man for Haiti" src="http://www.haitian-truth.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/14649.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a>Wall Street Journal Questions were supplied to President Jean-Claude Duvalier  in English. He replied in French.  Following the English/French version is one in which we have provided an  English/English versions so the entire world can absorb the interview.</strong></p>
<p>These are followed by a comment by <a href="http://haitian-truth.org/" target="_blank">HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG</a></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The interview:</span></p>
<p><strong><em>1 .The Swiss and Haitian governments claim that you stole the money in  question from the Haitian state. What is your response to this? Where did this  money come from? </em></strong></p>
<p>JC: Tout d’abord, il faut  clarifier, de quels fonds s’agit-il ? Dépendant  des sources il s’agit tantôt de 7 millions, tantôt de 5 millions, tantôt de 4 millions….. .</p>
<p>Sur le montant exact je ne dispose d’aucun renseignement précis  si  ce n’est que cette somme quelle qu’elle  soit,  n’est que l’épargne que ma famille a constituée depuis plus de  60 ans a laquelle s’ajoutent les intérêts bancaires depuis plus d’un demi-siècle.  Ces intérêts représentent à peu prés 80% du montant en question .</p>
<p>Le gouvernement suisse a bloqué ces fonds au motif qu’une procédure  judiciaire aurait été initiée en Haïti. Non seulement aucune condamnation n’a  jamais été prononcée contre moi en Haïti, mais mieux encore  aucune procédure judiciaire n’a jamais  été engagée contre les Duvalier,  jusqu&#8217;à cette date,  en Haïti.</p>
<p>Les deux décisions prises en 24 ans  qui me concernent ont été rendues par  les tribunaux français et suisses. Et ces deux décisions ont été rendues en  ma faveur.</p>
<p><strong><em>2. Do you have any response to accusations that you engaged in criminal  behaviour during your governance of Haiti?</em></strong></p>
<p>JCD:    Criminal behaviour !</p>
<p>Laissez-moi  saisir cette opportunité pour vous présenter  en deux mots  ce qu’a été mon gouvernement que j’ai voulu être avant tout un gouvernement  d’ouverture</p>
<p>Des  mon accession à la présidence succédant à feu mon Père, à l’âge de 18  ans, en vu de maintenir l’équilibre politique dont Haïti avait besoin  pour son développement économique,  j’ai fait appel  à tous les exilés pour qu’ils viennent apporter leurs contributions au développement de ce  pays. Un certain nombre a répondu positivement. Parmi eux il y en a qui sont même devenus ministres ou ambassadeurs…</p>
<p>Pour y parvenir, mon premier geste a été de neutraliser toutes les forces négatives  qui pouvaient constituer un obstacle  à l’émergence de structures démocratiques réelles en Haïti. Ce n’était pas chose facile, croyez-moi,  mais je me suis attelé à la tache.</p>
<p>Regardez ce qui se passe en Haiti depuis mon départ :</p>
<p>Combien de leaders politiques, combien de syndicalistes, combien d’étudiants,  combien de journalistes ont été assassinés, exécutés  sans l’ouverture  de la moindre enquête.  Le plus petit de ces cas eut soulevé la conscience  et l’indignation de la communauté internationale durant ma présidence !</p>
<p>Combien de dirigeants, de sénateurs, de chefs de police, … ont été poursuivis  aux  États-Unis même, pour leur implication dans des trafics illicites et  criminels durant ces 20 dernières années ?</p>
<p>Ni moi-même, ni aucun membre de mon gouvernement ou de mon administration n’avons  jamais fait l’objet de poursuites pour conduites criminelles,  ni n’avons  été mis en accusation pour trafics illicites de tout genre,  pendant ou après  ma présidence.</p>
<p>Parlant de « criminal behaviour » vous vous trompez d’époque et de personne !</p>
<p>Quand j’entends les milliards qui ont été dépensés en Haïti versus les  réalisations au cours de ces 20 dernières années, il faudrait que l’on demande  comptes.</p>
<p>Demandez donc au peuple haïtien librement  s’il vivait mieux avant ou s’il vit mieux aujourd’hui…et faites-moi part du verdict.</p>
<p><strong><em>3. Why have you decided to fight the seizure and return of a relatively  small amount of money so aggressively?</em></strong></p>
<p>JCD:   C’est pour moi avant  tout une question de principe que de défendre  l’honneur de feu ma mère  et, j’irai même devant la cour européenne des droits de l’homme pour défendre son  honneur.</p>
<p>Faut-il clarifier que le compte bancaire en question est celui de la Fondation  de feu ma mère.</p>
<p><strong><em>4. What is your reaction to the Swiss government&#8217;s most recent freeze of  the money (in January 2010)?</em></strong></p>
<p>JCD:  Choqué. C’est le  comble ! Pendant longtemps les pays du vieux continent représentaient pour tout le monde le symbole  même de la démocratie par excellence ou se pratique la séparation des  pouvoirs et la suprématie de la loi.</p>
<p>Figurez-vous que la plus haute instance judiciaire suisse,- la cour suprême  fédérale,-  ordonne le déblocage et la restitution  de ces fonds et  le gouvernement suisse, sans obtenir la permission d’un tribunal, ordonne  de maintenir le blocage et propose au parlement suisse de voter une loi rétroactive qui lui permettrait de disposer de ces fonds comme il  l’entend !</p>
<p>Même dans ce que vous appelez vous autres les républiques bananières on  n’aurait pas osé.</p>
<p>Cette affaire sans précédent, remet en question la crédibilité de tout le  système financier  suisse.</p>
<p>Dés lors, qu’un état ne respecte plus les décisions de ses propres tribunaux  il n’y a plus d’état.</p>
<p>Même en Haïti, on ne verrait pas cela !</p>
<p><strong><em>5. What is your reaction to the new law (the so-called &#8220;Lex Duvalier&#8221;) the Swiss have proposed in order to return the money to Haiti?</em></strong></p>
<p>JCD:  Paradoxalement, il y a  une affaire Duvalier en Suisse alors qu’il n’existe pas d’affaire Duvalier en Haïti.</p>
<p>Et cette loi rétroactive proposée par le gouvernement suisse vise à  subtiliser les fonds d’un client de l’UBS pour  être  envoyés  au gouvernement le plus corrompu de toute l’Histoire haïtienne.</p>
<p>Pendant que je vous parle et que  l’on dénie à ma mère plus de 60 ans d’épargne familiale, un  proche collaborateur de ce gouvernement haïtien  ayant moins de 3 000 euros de salaires mensuel, a pu accumuler, en moins de  cinq ans, plus de 25 millions d’euros de dépôts  bancaires en Suisse !</p>
<p><strong><em>6. Can you confirm  that you currently live in </em></strong><strong><em>France</em></strong><strong><em>?</em></strong></p>
<p>JCD:  Je suis  toujours  basé en France depuis mon départ d’Haïti en 1986.</p>
<p><strong><em>7. What would you do with the money if it were returned to you?</em></strong></p>
<p>JCD:  Après  le séisme du  12 janvier 2010, date aussi de l’arrêt de la cour suprême  fédérale suisse, j’ai choisi  de faire don des fonds de la fondation de feu ma mère, Simone Ovide  Duvalier à la croix rouge américaine (compte tenu de la proximité des deux pays) en vue   d’apporter une assistance d’urgence aux victimes des communes de Léogane, Carrefour, Port-au-Prince,…</p>
<p>Le gouvernement suisse soutient  qu’il bloque ces fonds à la demande du  gouvernement corrompu  d’Haïti et les donnera en cadeau à une  organisation suisse de préférence  pour pouvoir subvenir aux besoins de la population haïtienne.</p>
<p>Si l’intention du gouvernement suisse était réelle  à l’ endroit du  malheureux peuple haïtien, c’eut été la bonne occasion de négocier avec les  bénéficiaires de la fondation.</p>
<p>J’ai de bonnes raisons, &#8211; en ayant en mémoire le précédent juif &#8211; de douter  des bonnes intentions du gouvernement suisse a l’égard du peuple haïtien.</p>
<p><strong><em> 8. Can you confirm that the money is being held in an account with UBS? </em></strong></p>
<p>JCD:  Bien sur, les  épargnes de ma famille existent  sur un compte de l’UBS depuis plus d’un demi-siècle !</p>
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<p><strong>Interview de Jean-Claude Duvalier par Deborah Ball pour le Wall Street Journal</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong><em>1 .The Swiss and Haitian governments  claim that you stole the money in question from the Haitian state. What is your response to  this? Where did this money come from? </em></strong></p>
<p><em>JCD:  First of all you would have to be more specific about which fund  you are referring to?  Depending on the source, 7 million, 5 million and 4  million have been mentioned </em><em></em></p>
<p><em>I do not know the exact amount of money involved, just that it has been my family savings from 60 years  ago to which interests have been added for over half a century.  The interests roughly make up 80% of the said amount. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>The Swiss government is freezing the funds supposedly because a legal action has been filed against me in Haiti.  Not only have I never been condemned of anything in </em><em>Haiti</em><em>, but better yet, there have never been any </em><em>legal procedure</em><em> filed against the  Duvalier family to date in Haiti. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>In 24 years the two verdicts have been rendered by both French and Swiss courts, and they were both in my  favor.</em><em></em></p>
<p><strong><em>2. Do you have any response to accusations that you engaged in criminal  behaviour during your governance of Haiti?</em></strong></p>
<p><em>JCD: Criminal behaviour ! </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>I would like to take this opportunity to share with you in few words what my government was about  and the fact I’ve always wanted an open government.</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>As soon as I succeeded my father, at the age of 18, in order to maintain a political equilibrium which Haiti desperately needed for its economical development, I had called upon all  exiles to return and bring in their contributions to the development of the  country. Some reacted positively, and among them even became ministers or  ambassadors… </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>To achieve that goal, my first act was to neutralize all negative forces which could turn into an obstacle  to growth of real democratic structures in Haiti.  It was not an easy task, believe me, but I devoted myself to it. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Look at what has been going on in Haiti since I departed.</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>How many political leaders, trade unionists, students, journalists, etc, were assassinated, murdered,  without the least bit of an investigation?  During my presidency much smaller things than that had warranted the conscientiousness and indignation of the international community.</em><em> </em><em> </em><em></em></p>
<p><em>How many leaders, senators, police chiefs … have been investigated in and by the United States for their involvement in illegal traffics and criminal activities during the last  20 years? </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Neither I nor any members of my government or administration have been the object of any investigation  for criminal activities, nor accused of drug trafficking in any way during  or after my presidency. </em><em></em></p>
<p><em>Speaking of “criminal behavior” you are mistaking the era and the person/people </em><em></em></p>
<p><em>When I hear about the millions that have been spent in Haiti versus results for the past 20 years, we would  have to ask for justifications. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Why don’t you ask the Haitian people if they had a better life during my presidency or if they have a better  life now….. and please let me know what you find out. </em><em></em></p>
<p><strong><em>3. Why have you decided to fight the seizure and return of a relatively  small amount of money so aggressively?</em></strong></p>
<p><em>JCD:  It is for me first and foremost a matter of principal to defend  my mother’s honor, and I will go as far as the European court for </em><em>Human rights</em><em> to defend that honor.</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>I must clarify for you that the account in question is that of my deceased mother’s foundation.</em><em></em></p>
<p><em> <strong>4. What is your reaction to  the Swiss government&#8217;s most recent freeze of the money (in January 2010)?</strong></em><em></em></p>
<p><em> JCD: Shocked.  It’s unbelievable.  For a long time the countries of the old continent were  for everyone the symbol of democracy where there supposedly was a separation between those in power and the supremacy of the law. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Can you believe that the highest judiciary branch in </em><em>Switzerland</em><em> – The Federal Supreme Court – ordered the release of the funds and the Swiss  government, without the authorization nor the backing of any court, orders the  freeze to remain while asking the Swiss parliament to vote a retroactive law which  will allow it to dispose of the funds as it sees fit! </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Even in what you call banana republics they would not have dared to go so far. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>This unprecedented case truly questions the credibility of the entire financial system of the Swiss. </em><em></em></p>
<p><em> As soon as a state no  longer respects the decisions of its own courts they are no longer a country.</em><em></em></p>
<p><em>You would not see something like that even in Haiti.</em><em></em></p>
<p><em> <strong>5. What is your reaction to  the new law (the so-called &#8220;Lex Duvalier&#8221;) the Swiss have proposed in order to return the money to  Haiti?</strong></em></p>
<p><em>JCD:  Paradoxically there is a Duvalier case in Switzerland while there  isn’t one in Haiti. </em><em></em></p>
<p><em>And the objective of this retroactive law proposed by the Swiss government is </em><em>to subtilize</em><em> a client’s funds in order to send it to the most corrupted government in  the </em><em>history of Haiti</em><em>.</em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>While I am speaking with you, and they are denying my mother’s 60 years of family savings, a very close collaborator of that Haitian governments whose monthly salary is less  than 3,000 Euros was able to have, in less than five years, more than 25  million Euros in a </em><em>Swiss bank account</em><em>. </em><em></em></p>
<p><strong><em>6. Can you confirm that you currently live in </em></strong><strong><em>France</em></strong><strong><em>?</em></strong></p>
<p><em>JCD:  I have always been in France since I left Haiti in 1986. </em><em></em></p>
<p><strong><em>7. What would you do with the money if it were returned to you?</em></strong></p>
<p><em>JCD:  After the January 12, 2010 earthquake, date of the Swiss’ Federal Supreme Court decision, I chose to donate the funds of my late mother  (Simone Ovide Duvalier)’s foundation to the </em><em>American Red Cross</em><em> (because of the  proximity of the two countries) in order for them to bring much needed emergency assistance to the victims of the communities of Leogane, Carrefour, Port-Au-Prince, ….</em><em> </em><em> </em><em></em></p>
<p><em> The Swiss government maintains it is freezing the funds by request of the corrupted Haitian government,  and will donate them to a Swiss organization instead which will be able to  answer to the need of the Haitian population. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>If the Swiss government’s “intention” were real toward the Haitian people, this would have been a  good time to negotiate with the beneficiaries of the foundation. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>I have good reasons – remembering a precedent with the Jews of </em><em>Germany</em><em> – to doubt the good intentions of the Swiss government toward the Haitian  people. </em><em></em></p>
<p><strong><em> 8. Can you confirm that the money is being held in an account with UBS? </em></strong></p>
<p><em>JCD:   Of course my  family’s savings exists in a USB account for more than half a century.</em><em></em></p>
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<p>COMMENT:<a href="http://haitian-truth.org/" target="_blank">HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG</a></p>
<p>I  am presently writing an analytical comment to support this interview</p>
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