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Message  Sasaye Mar 31 Juil 2007 - 13:01

Under Preval, Haiti enjoys fragile stability
By Carol J. Williams

July 29, 2007

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti

Shoeless boys with angry eyes and empty stomachs no longer loiter outside the green iron gates of the National Palace.

The odd jobs of oppression have disappeared. In the atmosphere of peace, there are no more orders to bash heads or crush dissent that once earned the ragtag enforcers a plate of rice and beans or a tube of glue to sniff.

Fourteen months into his second tenure as president, Rene Preval has broken ranks with two centuries of despots and demagogues. He has eschewed the politics of brutality and confrontation, quietly achieving what only a year ago seemed unimaginable: fragile unity among this country's fractious classes.

Allies and adversaries alike credit the reclusive president with creating a breathing space for addressing the poverty and environmental devastation that have made Haiti the most wretched place in the Western Hemisphere.

Preval has taken small steps to crack down on crime and corruption and to improve Haiti's infrastructure and food supply. But he holds to the strategy he used in defeating more than 30 rivals in the election last year: Make no promises, raise no expectations.

Observers say Preval's low-key approach might be what Haiti has needed, but they worry what will happen if his shaky health takes a turn for the worse or if the country's 8 million people start to lose patience with his go-slow approach.

Preval loathes the limelight, evading ceremony and exuding moody impatience with meetings, limiting them to what aides insist are essential contacts to begin moving mountains of corruption, injustice, squalor and 70 percent unemployment.

He seldom leaves the palace, where visitors find him padding between his office and apartment in polo shirts and sandals. When he must go out, he travels in a modest motorcade.

A loner chafing in the midst of liveried staff and a protective contingent of U.N. soldiers, the president has been known to steal out for a nocturnal stroll, incognito in the parks surrounding the palace.

A once-legendary consumer of the island's famed Barbancourt rum, Preval has lately cut down in favor of an occasional whiskey and decidedly fewer Marlboros. Some attribute the reining-in of his excesses to a scare this winter, when doctors found signs suggesting a recurrence of cancer.

He makes regular visits to Cuba for treatment, grouses about the side effects of his medications, but looks to be weathering the demands of office as well as can be expected of a 64-year-old long advised to make lifestyle changes.

Colleagues panic at the thought that the prostate cancer that was diagnosed and treated six years ago could recur and force him from office.

Those closest to Preval praise his modesty but sometimes despair of his reticence.

"Some people think he's too laid-back," conceded Lionel Delatour, a business consultant and friend. Preval hasn't made a single diplomatic appointment since taking office, Delatour said, shying away from the kind of decisions that could alienate factions in his broad coalition.

"He isn't going to make waves," Delatour said. "He told his ministers that he didn't want to see massive firings" of civil servants, as occurred when his mentor, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, fled after being ousted in February 2004 and a caretaker government swept his supporters from office.

Preval has yet to tour the countryside, make a public address, hold a news conference or grant an interview while in office.

"He's a very low-key president, but it would be a mistake to think he's not a hands-on president," U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson said. Still, she wishes he would get out more and promote the hard-won stability he has secured to give confidence to potential tourists and investors.

Some point to Preval's 1996-2001 presidency, when he was perceived as doing Aristide's bidding, as the cause of his reluctance to trumpet recent successes.

"He's very cautious and low-key, perhaps because he was part of the mess," veteran human rights activist Jean-Claude Bajeux says of Preval, whom he considered too willing an accomplice when Aristide was arming street gangs and repressing opponents.

Bajeux, 76, believes Preval is now skillfully moving Haiti away from the disorder of populist revolution but without any recognizable governing model.

That experiment could fail if the millions without work or much hope of it in the near future get restless, he said.

There are glimmers of improvement: Electricity generation plants are being repaired with foreign aid funds. A new road to the north is under construction. Food aid for orphanages and health centers is flowing. Flights from Miami, Fort Lauderdale and New York have tripled in the past year, ferrying in thousands who patronize hotels, restaurants and open-air markets.

A handful of new investments in the mobile phone and textile industries have created a few hundred new jobs - in a country that needs millions.

Those small steps have gained Preval little capital on the squalid streets of Port-au-Prince, where two out of five Haitians live. Most are jammed into one-room hovels, often next to open sewers and charred reminders of gang war.

"If there's anything to be thankful for, God is responsible," sniffed Nadine Domaius, a 42-year-old mother of four who was selling soft drinks in the crush of rickety push carts, honking jalopies and smoke-belching trucks.

Denis Sonel, another slum-dweller selling prepaid phone cards, concedes it is now safe to walk the streets. But he, too, is reluctant to credit Preval.

Nodding toward the palace, the 53-year-old father of five said: "Preval was already there once and he didn't do much."



Carol J. Williams writes for the Los Angeles Times.
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Message  Joel Mar 31 Juil 2007 - 16:31

Ki sa Jean Claude Bajeux vle la a menm?
Eske se pa lè pou misye fèmen dyòl li e pitou fè mea culpa l?

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Message  Sasaye Mar 31 Juil 2007 - 16:49

Neg tankou Bajeux pa jam kite metye yo.
Fwa saa li pa gen woulib sou gouvènman saa.
Epi moun ki te konprann Bajeux te sensè avèk pèp la te twonpe yo anpil.

Msye soti lan vant vye boujwazi reactionè a. Li te fouré ko l
anba Aristide pou avantaj men li pat janm lan kan popilè a.
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Message  Joel Mar 31 Juil 2007 - 18:04

Se misye ki te envante ekspresyon "Operasyon Bagdad" lan,pou l jistifye represyon ki t ap fèt nan katye popilè yo.

E pi ti krik ti krak,misye te konn di ke se Aristide ki te kòmandite "Operasyon Bagdad" li an.
E misye pa t janm pou yon sèl fwa pwouve sa l t ap di an.

Ou wè apre preske twa zan misye kontinye ap di menm bagay yo!

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Message  piporiko Mar 31 Juil 2007 - 18:45

Se ajan lafrans li ye.

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