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PAUL G. MAGLOIRE says:
President Ren Prval Is Responsible......President René Préval is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in Haiti Open Letter to President Lula of Brazil, Obama U.S., Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Harper of Canada Figure 1: Paul Gustave Magloire March 9, 2010 President René Préval is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in Haiti Excellencies, Presidents and Prime Minister, Gentlemen, I was privileged to meet three of you, except the President of the United States, when I served my country in public office, either as a Special Advisor to the Government or a Minister Interior of my country. I take this opportunity to thank you for showing great generosity to the people of Haiti is going through the hardest time in its history. We will be forever grateful. Let me remind you that January 12, 2010, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 has, in the blink for 36 seconds, devastated and reduced to ruins, the capital of my country, Port-au-Prince, and to a lesser degree cities Gressier of Leogane, Grand Goave, Petit-Goave and Jacmel. Following this earthquake, more than one million of our brothers and sisters are sleeping under the stars today, among them children, babies, pregnant women and old men, wounded and amputees by thousands and thousands other people who were already disabled, or who were maimed during the earthquake, either by losing an arm or leg, or even have all the members of their body completely fractured. Once past the first moments of stupor, the Haitian people, all ages and all classes combined, was launched with bare hands or with makeshift tools to attack the houses and buildings collapsed to search and remove the rubble of thousands of wounded and people who were uninjured. This act of courage equated with heroism, continued day and night until help arrived made by your country and other members of the international community. We will never stop thanking you for the many lives of our brothers and sisters who have been saved. But during all this time, where were the President of Haiti, Mr. René Préval and his government? It is reported that establishing the scale of the tragedy, they got scared and considered fleeing the country to escape the wrath of the population. They have publicly emerged only after they were reassured by the presence of troops who had arrived in the country to provide relief where the population needed. But even after President Préval was finally out of the hole where he had holed up, he did not even have the decency to send a word of compassion for victims. His only lament, before the cameras of CNN, that he had lost "his" palace. It showed as he felt nothing in his heart for the Haitian people in distress. But Mr Preval had a good reason to fear the wrath of the population. For without the actions of Mr. Preval and his government, thousands of lives have been saved. Indeed, before the arrival of Mr. René Préval to power in 2006, for a second term, the country had been governed by a transitional government for a period of 2 years. I then had the honor of being the Minister of Interior and Local Government in the had held elections that brought Mr. Préval to power. My team and I had diagnosed the condition of population concentration in the capital, Port-au-Prince, was a danger to the public. Because the city had been planned to accommodate 300, 000 people and had yet accumulated over the years, about 10 times more inhabitants. Thus, most of the population lived outside urban infrastructure, no water, no electricity and poor sanitary conditions. In addition, construction of houses and buildings did not follow any code of rational construction for an area that was traversed by a fault tectonics. An earthquake had destroyed the city in the past. So anytime we could expect a disaster that could be caused by an earthquake or as an epidemic, given the sad state of environmental health. So, we took important steps to launch a broad program of decentralization of the capital. Among the most visible measures, we established a community charter to facilitate decentralized operations. In this context, we launched the construction of the road in the country's most modern in the last 20 years to link the city of Cap-Haitien in the north to the Dominican Republic. We started to provide each department's geographic country of an administrative complex to house the decentralized central government and enable them to function in a modern setting so that public offices can provide quality services to taxpayers. We even launched a telematics system that would equip all municipal offices across the country parabolic antennas to enable them to access the Internet via satellite and share information in real time. The ultimate goal of this administrative and technology was to facilitate and encourage the population of Port-au-Prince to leave the capital, Port-au-Prince, which floated many risks and settle for a new life in provincial towns. Upon the arrival of Mr René Préval and his team in power, they have taken all measures to end the program devolution. Most projects were blocked, and diverted funding, forgetting that the decentralization and deconcentration programs that were able to save thousands of lives in case of earthquakes or epidemics. The question that any reasonable person might ask is this: why a government that was elected to serve a people could act against him and not even stop to provisions that could be harmful to people? The first response would be to put it down to the incompetence of Mr. Preval and his team. Not really. Because I publicly defended the importance of devolved capital and decentralization for the good of the population. I was even meeting with the President himself in a final effort to convince him on the subject. However, every effort was vain. For Mr. Preval believes in concentration. The population is held hostage in the slums of the capital is a political instrument that is used to retain power and that also attracts international charity. Mr Preval was aware of the problem or the risk that running population. But he was desperate to enrich and sustain power. Finally, it suffers, like so many heads of state of Haiti before him, the disease of power in life is that our country is today the poorest in the hemisphere. In fact, to satisfy his inordinate desire to continue in power and enrich himself, Mr. Preval and his team did not shrink from murder. The 64 projects launched by the Ministry of Interior, under the program of decentralization of the capital, have been slow and has not been completed before the end of my visit to this department, that the Director of office position to monitor the contracts signed by the Government, Mr Robert Francis Marcello, asked me to submit all contracts signed by my department to review by his office. Despite the urgency, I demanded of my colleagues to undergo the rigor of good governance. For this was the official symbol of what was best in the country's administration. So, Mr. Marcello, unfortunately for him, had asked the team to Mr. Préval to undergo the same inspection system. But instead, Mr. Marcello will be kidnapped in broad daylight. Since then, he is missing. We've known through the statements of a hitman who has been arrested in the Dominican Republic and extradited to France for the murder of a French consul, that the palace was ordered to execute Mr. Marcello making him pass a truck on the truck body. The list of misdeeds of Mr. Preval and his team is too long to fit in this letter. This regime is considered the most corrupt in history. Everything is done openly, it's rigged elections, looting the public treasury of drug trafficking and even acts of murder. Thus, no embassy established in the country can pretend to ignore these facts. So if today the international community supports this government, on the basis of legitimacy that he no longer has to be responsible for rebuilding the country, as saying the Haitian people that don ' has no right to dream that he will one day have a democratic, modern and prosperous. Haiti can not die, so Mr. Préval must go. There are men and honest women in the country who can form a government of hi public and organize free, fair and democratic. Thus, we are asking friendly countries to support the Haitian people through this process. A people is not always the government it deserves. Presidents of Friends, Mr. Prime Minister, we are honored to welcome you on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Paul Gustave Magloire
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PAUL G. MAGLOIRE says:
Lettre Ouverte Aux Prsidents Lula Du Brsil, ObamLettre ouverte aux Présidents Lula du Brésil, Obama des Etats-Unis, Sarkozy de la France, et au Premier Ministre Harper du Canada Figure 1: Paul Gustave Magloire 9 Mars 2010 Président René Préval est responsable pour des dizaines de milliers de morts en Haiti Excellences, Messieurs les Présidents et Premier Ministre, Messieurs, j’ai eu le privilège de rencontrer trois d’entre vous, à l’exception du Président des Etats-Unis, au moment ou je servais mon pays dans des fonctions officielles, soit en tant que Conseiller Spécial du gouvernement ou comme Ministre de l’Intérieur de mon pays. Je profite de cette opportunité pour vous remercier d’avoir manifesté une très grande générosité envers le peuple haitien qui est en train de traverser le moment le plus dur de son histoire. Nous vous en serons toujours reconnaissants. Permettez-moi de vous rappeler que le 12 janvier 2010, un tremblement de terre de magnitude 7.2 a, dans le cillement de 36 secondes, dévasté et réduit en ruines la capitale de mon pays, Port-au-Prince, et à un degré moindre les villes de Gréssier, de Léogane, de Grand-Goâve, de Petit-Goâve et de Jacmel. A la suite de ce tremblement de terre, plus d’un million de nos frères et sÅ"urs dorment à la belle étoile aujourd’hui, parmi eux enfants, bébés, femmes enceintes et vieillards, blessés, et amputés par milliers, et des milliers d’autres personnes qui étaient déjà à mobilité réduite, ou qui ont été estropiées lors du séisme, en perdant soit un bras, soit une jambe, ou qui encore ont tous les membres de leur corps totalement fracturés. Une fois passés les premiers moments de stupeur, le peuple haitien, tous les âges et toutes les classes confondus, s’était lancé les mains nues, ou avec des outils de fortune, à l’assaut des maisons et des édifices effondrés afin de rechercher et de retirer des décombres des milliers de blessés et de gens qui étaient indemnes. Ce geste de courage assimilé à l’héroisme, a continué jours et nuits jusqu'à l’arrivée des secours apportés par vos pays et d’autres membres de la communauté internationale. Nous ne cesserons jamais de vous remercier pour ce grand nombre de vie de nos frères et sÅ"urs qui ont été sauvées. Mais, pendant tout ce temps, ou étaient le Président haitien, Monsieur René Préval et son gouvernement ? Il est reporté que constatant l’ampleur du drame, ils ont pris peur et ont considéré de fuir le pays pour échapper à la colère de la population. Ils ne se sont publiquement manifestés que seulement après qu’ils étaient rassurés par la présence des troupes qui étaient arrivées dans le pays pour apporter les secours dont la population avait besoin. Mais, même après que Président Préval était finalement sorti du trou ou il s’était terré, il n’a même pas eu la pudeur d’adresser un mot de compassion aux victimes. Sa seule complainte, devant les cameras de CNN, c’est qu’il avait perdu « son » palais. Il avait montré ainsi qu’il n’éprouvait rien dans son cÅ"ur pour le peuple haitien en détresse. Mais, Monsieur Préval avait une bonne raison d’avoir peur de la colère de la population. Car, sans les actions de Monsieur Préval et de son gouvernement, des milliers de vies auraient été épargnées. En effet, avant l’arrivée de Monsieur René Préval au pouvoir, en 2006, pour un second mandat, le pays avait été dirigé par un gouvernement de transition pour une période de 2 ans. J’avais alors l’honneur d’être le Ministre de l’Intérieur et des Collectivités dans ce gouvernement qui avait organisé les élections qui ont amené Monsieur Préval au pouvoir. Mon équipe et moi avions diagnostiqué que l’état de concentration démographique de la capitale, Port-au-Prince, représentait un danger pour la population. Car, cette ville avait été prévue pour recevoir 300.000 personnes et avait pourtant accumulé au cours des ans, environ 10 fois plus d’habitants. Ainsi, la plus grande partie de cette population vivait en dehors des infrastructures urbaines, sans eau potable, sans électricité et dans des conditions sanitaires déplorables. En plus, la construction des maisons et des édifices ne suivait aucun code de construction rationnelle pour une zone qui était traversée par une faille tectonique. Un tremblement de terre avait déjà détruit cette ville dans le passé. Donc, à n’importe quel moment on pouvait s’attendre à un désastre qui pourrait être causé par un séisme ou aussi par une épidémie, compte tenu du niveau déplorable de l’environnement sanitaire. Alors, nous avions pris des mesures importantes pour lancer un vaste programme de déconcentration de la capitale. Parmi les mesures les plus visibles, nous avions mis sur pied une chartre des collectivités pour faciliter les opérations décentralisées. Dans ce cadre, nous avons lancé la construction de la route du pays la plus moderne de ces 20 dernières années, pour lier la ville du Cap-Haitien dans le nord du pays à la République Dominicaine. Nous avions entamé de doter chaque département géographique du pays d’un complexe administratif pour abriter les services décentralisés du pouvoir central et leur permettre de fonctionner dans un cadre moderne afin que les bureaux publics puissent offrir des services de qualité aux contribuables. Nous avions même initié un réseau télématique qui devait équiper tous les offices municipaux à travers le pays d’antennes paraboliques pour leur permettre d’avoir accès à l’internet par satellite et d’échanger des informations en temps réel. Le but final de cet environnement administratif et technologique était de faciliter et d’encourager la population de Port-au-Prince à quitter la capitale du pays, Port-au-Prince, sur lequel planaient beaucoup de risques et de s’établir, pour une nouvelle vie, dans les villes de province. Dès l’arrivée de Monsieur René Préval et de son équipe au pouvoir, ils ont pris toutes les mesures pour mettre fin au programme de déconcentration. La plupart des projets furent bloqués, et leur financement détourné, en oubliant que la décentralisation et la déconcentration étaient des programmes qui pouvaient sauver des milliers de vies en cas de séismes ou d’épidémies. La question que toute personne raisonnable pourrait se poser est celle-ci : pourquoi un gouvernement qui a été élu pour servir un peuple pourrait agir à son détriment et même ne pas s’arrêter devant des dispositions qui pourraient faire du tort à ce peuple ? La première réponse serait de mettre cela sur le compte de l’incompétence de Monsieur Préval et de son équipe. Pas vraiment. Car, j’ai publiquement défendu l’importance de la déconcentration de la capitale et de la décentralisation pour le bien de la population. J’ai été même jusqu'à rencontrer le Président en personne dans un ultime effort de le convaincre sur le sujet. Mais, tout effort fut vain. Car, Monsieur Préval croit dans la concentration. La population qui est tenue en otage dans les bidonvilles de la capitale est un instrument politique qui est utilisé pour garder le pouvoir et qui sert aussi à attirer la charité internationale. Monsieur Préval n’ignorait pas le problème ni les risques que courait la population. Mais, il était prêt à tout pour s’enrichir et se pérenniser au pouvoir. Enfin, il souffre, comme tant de chefs d’Etat haitien avant lui, de cette maladie du pouvoir à vie qui vaut que notre pays soit aujourd’hui le plus pauvre de l’hémisphère. En fait, pour assouvir son envie démesurée de perdurer au pouvoir et de s’enrichir, Monsieur Préval et son équipe n’ont pas reculé devant le meurtre. Les 64 projets lancés par le Ministère de l’Intérieur, dans le cadre du programme de la déconcentration de la capitale, ont été ralentis et n’ont pas été complétés avant la fin de mon passage à ce ministère, du fait que le directeur du bureau placé pour contrôler les contrats signés par le gouvernement, Monsieur Robert Francois Marcello, m’avait demandé de soumettre tous les contrats signés par mon ministère au contrôle de son bureau. Malgré l’urgence, j’avais exigé de mes collègues de se soumettre à la rigueur de la bonne gouvernance. Car, ce fonctionnaire était le symbole de ce qu’il y avait de meilleur dans l’administration du pays. Donc, Monsieur Marcello, pour son malheur, avait demandé à l’équipe de Monsieur Préval de se soumettre à ce même régime de contrôle. Mais, au lieu de cela, Monsieur Marcello sera kidnappé en plein jour. Depuis lors, il est porté disparu. Nous avons su à travers les déclarations d’un tueur à gages qui a été arrêté en République Dominicaine et extradé en France pour l’assassinat d’un consul francais, que le palais avait donné l’ordre d’exécuter Monsieur Marcello en lui faisant passer un camion poids lourd sur le corps. La liste des méfaits de Monsieur Préval et de son équipe est trop longue pour tenir dans cette lettre. Ce régime passe pour être le plus corrompu dans l’histoire du pays. Tout est fait à visages découverts, qu’il s’agit d’élections truquées, du pillage du trésor public du trafic de la drogue et même les actes d’assassinats. Ainsi, aucune ambassade établie dans le pays ne peut feindre d’ignorer ces faits. Donc, si aujourd’hui la communauté internationale supporte que ce gouvernement, sur la base d’une légitimité qu’il n’a plus, soit responsable de la reconstruction du pays, c’est autant dire au peuple haitien qu’il n’a pas le droit de rêver qu’il aura un jour un pays démocratique, moderne et prospère. Haiti ne peut pas mourir, donc Monsieur Préval doit partir. Il existe des hommes et des femmes honnêtes dans le pays qui peuvent former un gouvernement de salut public et organiser des élections libres, honnêtes et démocratiques. Ainsi, nous demandons aux pays amis de supporter le peuple haitien dans cette démarche. Un peuple n’a pas toujours le gouvernement qu’il mérite. Messieurs les Présidents des pays amis, monsieur le Premier Ministre, nous sommes très honorés de vous saluer au nom de nos frères et sÅ"urs d’Haiti. Paul Gustave Magloire Ancien Ministre de l’Intérieur et des Collectivités
PAUL G. MAGLOIRE says:
Open Letter To President Lula Of Brazil, Obama U.Open Letter to President Lula of Brazil, Obama U.S., Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Harper of Canada Figure 1: Paul Gustave Magloire March 9, 2010 President René Préval is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in Haiti Excellencies, Presidents and Prime Minister, Gentlemen, I was privileged to meet three of you, except the President of the United States, when I served my country in public office, either as a Special Advisor to the Government or a Minister Interior of my country. I take this opportunity to thank you for showing great generosity to the people of Haiti is going through the hardest time in its history. We will be forever grateful. Let me remind you that January 12, 2010, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 has, in the blink for 36 seconds, devastated and reduced to ruins, the capital of my country, Port-au-Prince, and to a lesser degree cities Gressier of Leogane, Grand Goave, Petit-Goave and Jacmel. Following this earthquake, more than one million of our brothers and sisters are sleeping under the stars today, among them children, babies, pregnant women and old men, wounded and amputees by thousands and thousands other people who were already disabled, or who were maimed during the earthquake, either by losing an arm or leg, or even have all the members of their body completely fractured. Once past the first moments of stupor, the Haitian people, all ages and all classes combined, was launched with bare hands or with makeshift tools to attack the houses and buildings collapsed to search and remove the rubble of thousands of wounded and people who were uninjured. This act of courage equated with heroism, continued day and night until help arrived made by your country and other members of the international community. We will never stop thanking you for the many lives of our brothers and sisters who have been saved. But during all this time, where were the President of Haiti, Mr. René Préval and his government? It is reported that establishing the scale of the tragedy, they got scared and considered fleeing the country to escape the wrath of the population. They have publicly emerged only after they were reassured by the presence of troops who had arrived in the country to provide relief where the population needed. But even after President Préval was finally out of the hole where he had holed up, he did not even have the decency to send a word of compassion for victims. His only lament, before the cameras of CNN, that he had lost "his" palace. It showed as he felt nothing in his heart for the Haitian people in distress. But Mr Preval had a good reason to fear the wrath of the population. For without the actions of Mr. Preval and his government, thousands of lives have been saved. Indeed, before the arrival of Mr. René Préval to power in 2006, for a second term, the country had been governed by a transitional government for a period of 2 years. I then had the honor of being the Minister of Interior and Local Government in the had held elections that brought Mr. Préval to power. My team and I had diagnosed the condition of population concentration in the capital, Port-au-Prince, was a danger to the public. Because the city had been planned to accommodate 300, 000 people and had yet accumulated over the years, about 10 times more inhabitants. Thus, most of the population lived outside urban infrastructure, no water, no electricity and poor sanitary conditions. In addition, construction of houses and buildings did not follow any code of rational construction for an area that was traversed by a fault tectonics. An earthquake had destroyed the city in the past. So anytime we could expect a disaster that could be caused by an earthquake or as an epidemic, given the sad state of environmental health. So, we took important steps to launch a broad program of decentralization of the capital. Among the most visible measures, we established a community charter to facilitate decentralized operations. In this context, we launched the construction of the road in the country's most modern in the last 20 years to link the city of Cap-Haitien in the north to the Dominican Republic. We started to provide each department's geographic country of an administrative complex to house the decentralized central government and enable them to function in a modern setting so that public offices can provide quality services to taxpayers. We even launched a telematics system that would equip all municipal offices across the country parabolic antennas to enable them to access the Internet via satellite and share information in real time. The ultimate goal of this administrative and technology was to facilitate and encourage the population of Port-au-Prince to leave the capital, Port-au-Prince, which floated many risks and settle for a new life in provincial towns. Upon the arrival of Mr René Préval and his team in power, they have taken all measures to end the program devolution. Most projects were blocked, and diverted funding, forgetting that the decentralization and deconcentration programs that were able to save thousands of lives in case of earthquakes or epidemics. The question that any reasonable person might ask is this: why a government that was elected to serve a people could act against him and not even stop to provisions that could be harmful to people? The first response would be to put it down to the incompetence of Mr. Preval and his team. Not really. Because I publicly defended the importance of devolved capital and decentralization for the good of the population. I was even meeting with the President himself in a final effort to convince him on the subject. However, every effort was vain. For Mr. Preval believes in concentration. The population is held hostage in the slums of the capital is a political instrument that is used to retain power and that also attracts international charity. Mr Preval was aware of the problem or the risk that running population. But he was desperate to enrich and sustain power. Finally, it suffers, like so many heads of state of Haiti before him, the disease of power in life is that our country is today the poorest in the hemisphere. In fact, to satisfy his inordinate desire to continue in power and enrich himself, Mr. Preval and his team did not shrink from murder. The 64 projects launched by the Ministry of Interior, under the program of decentralization of the capital, have been slow and has not been completed before the end of my visit to this department, that the Director of office position to monitor the contracts signed by the Government, Mr Robert Francis Marcello, asked me to submit all contracts signed by my department to review by his office. Despite the urgency, I demanded of my colleagues to undergo the rigor of good governance. For this was the official symbol of what was best in the country's administration. So, Mr. Marcello, unfortunately for him, had asked the team to Mr. Préval to undergo the same inspection system. But instead, Mr. Marcello will be kidnapped in broad daylight. Since then, he is missing. We've known through the statements of a hitman who has been arrested in the Dominican Republic and extradited to France for the murder of a French consul, that the palace was ordered to execute Mr. Marcello making him pass a truck on the truck body. The list of misdeeds of Mr. Preval and his team is too long to fit in this letter. This regime is considered the most corrupt in history. Everything is done openly, it's rigged elections, looting the public treasury of drug trafficking and even acts of murder. Thus, no embassy established in the country can pretend to ignore these facts. So if today the international community supports this government, on the basis of legitimacy that he no longer has to be responsible for rebuilding the country, as saying the Haitian people that don ' has no right to dream that he will one day have a democratic, modern and prosperous. Haiti can not die, so Mr. Préval must go. There are men and honest women in the country who can form a government of hi public and organize free, fair and democratic. Thus, we are asking friendly countries to support the Haitian people through this process. A people is not always the government it deserves. Presidents of Friends, Mr. Prime Minister, we are honored to welcome you on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Paul Gustave Magloire Former Minister of Interior and Local
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SERIOUSLY LOOKING FOR JOB TO REBUILD HAITII am a skilled Accountant and Recruiter/Trainer and very seriously looking for a job in Haiti to help rebuild Haiti economy as long as I am employed there. Please kindly furnish me any information to send my application as soon as possible. My email address is tao8711 at yahoo, com. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Warmest Regards,
Patrick
CARMEN says:
I Have Some Brand New Work Shirts!!!HI! I have brand new short sleeve and long sleeve blouses and polos from the golf course i work at and would like to donate them. They do say staff on in little writing. I was thinking they would be good for a business thats getting back on its feet and needed uniforms, let me know!
Sylvia Gaines says:
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NotesAnsell Gardens Community Center in Portsmouth, Virginia is Donating 1000 stuff animals to the childrren in Hatiti. Help put a smile on one childs face by donating a stuff animal or toy. Ansell gardens is also looking for supporters to help ship these stuffed animals to an oprhanage in Hatiti. If you think you can help please feel free to contact Ansell Gardens Community
Sylvia Gaines says:
Toy For The Children757-397-6161
ContactSylvia Gaines
Ansell Gardens Community Center in Portsmouth, Virginia is Donating 1000 stuff animals to the childrren in Hatiti. Help put a smile on one childs face by donating a stuff animal or toy. Ansell gardens is also looking for supporters to help ship these stuffed animals to an oprhanage in Hatiti. If you think you can help please feel free to contact Ansell Gardens Community
ashlee rea says:
RE: Donate Clothes To Haiti Earthquake Victimsplease send me your address so i can send you cloths. I have lots of childrens cloths.
Will says:
Metal Building SheltersWe would like to help supply metal building materials for schools, shelters etc in Haiti which would not only provide shelters but jobs as well. Our website is alphametalmfg.com 850-585-5190
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