Associated Press
March 02, 2011 20:18 EST
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — A candidate in Haiti’s presidential runoff election says it’s time to start selling the true image of Haiti as a rich country instead of a disaster-prone wreck.
At a campaign stop in Coral Gables on Wednesday, Michel Martelly said tourism and investment will help solve the security issues that have plagued the Caribbean country.
Martelly also promises to create jobs and improve access to education and health care. He also wants to reinstate Haiti’s army to replace United Nations peacekeepers.
The 50-year-old candidate is better known as the singer “Sweet Micky.” He faces former first lady Mirlande Manigat in Haiti’s March 20 runoff vote.
Truly amazing. The rear-revealing ruffian is already sounding presidential. Forget what he said about tourism in Haiti or education. He wants to reinstitute the Haitian Army, actually the Haitian Goon Squad for American and Mafia Interests, and send home MINUSTAH. This is exactly what I said would happen in previous postings to this site.
Maybe the American ambassador spoke up for Manigat but I am very sure now that they can work with the dropout clown singer. They may have already struck a deal. Get used to President Martelly. He will be a weak president when his antics grow tiring and the people rise up against him. I am still sure the abstention rate will be huge in any case. For Martelly’s sake and for the Americans’ sake, they had better hope that the Voodoostapo is in place to quash any impudent peasant uprising who resent the new Sweatshopistan.