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<div align="left"><b><big><big><big><big><big><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span
style="font-family: Verdana; ">Duvalier: Dead but
Not
Gone</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></big></big></big></big></big></b><span
style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size:
13px;"><br>
By Charlie Hinton <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier,
responsible for the death of thousands
and the theft of millions, who moved openly in the society
of Haitian elites protected
by the government, died on October 4 a free man. He
reportedly suffered a heart
attack at the home of an associate in a wealthy enclave
above Port-au-Prince. </span><span style="font-family:
Verdana; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Meanwhile former President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who helped
build the movement to drive Duvalier from power in 1986, who
was twice elected
president with huge majorities only to be overthrown by U.S.
backed coups, and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;
">who
as president created more schools in a decade than had been
created in all of
Haiti's previous 200 year history, is now forced to live
under </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); ">“house arrest,” a concept unknown in
Haitian law, with his home surrounded by heavily armed
police wearing black ski
masks. He’s falsely accused of “corruption,” charges levied
and dismissed for
the past 10 years in Haitian and Miami courts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Baby
Doc
may be dead, but Duvalierism is embedded in this upside down
Haiti of Bill and
Hillary Clinton and their presidential puppet, Michel
Martelly.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Duvalierism
is
embedded in the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.oasishaiti.com/royaloasis/index.html"><span
style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(18, 66, 155); ">Royal
Oasis Hotel</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">,
partially funded by the Clinton
Bush Haiti Fund, a “symbol of the new Haïti” that now
provides tourists, NGO and
foreign officials an “oasis” to shield them from the lives
of the overwhelming
majority of Haitians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px;">It lives in the increasing
rule by decree without parliamentary
input, and federal <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>government
appointments
to replace locally elected officials. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">It’s
embedded
in a Martelly administration filled with Duvalierists
including </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color:
rgb(52, 52, 52); ">former Haitian army officer David Bazile
the Interior Minister,
and Magalie Racine, daughter of former Tonton Macoute
militia chief Madame Max
Adolphe, the Youth and Sports Minister. Public Works
Secretary of State
Philippe Cinéas is the son of longtime Duvalierist figure
Alix Cinéas. In
addition Duvalier’s son, Nicolas, is a close Martelly
advisor</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">.</span><span
style="font-family: Verdana; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Duvalierism
is
</span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-style:
normal; ">embedded in a
corrupt legal system that allows Martelly to appoint </span></em><span
class="st"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Lamarre </span></span><em><span
style="font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; ">Belizaire
as a judge although he
was not qualified, and despite the fact t</span></em><span
style="font-family: Verdana; ">he
Port-au-Prince bar has banned Belizaire from practicing law
for 10
years for collaboration in the arrest of attorney Andre
Michel, who brought
corruption charges against Martelly’s wife and son.</span><span
style="font-family: Verdana; "> It
was Belizaire who issued the house arrest warrant for
Aristide and the recent
warrant for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Jean
Nadal Aristide, arrested on October 4<sup>th</sup>,
one of the outspoken leaders of the march on September 30<sup>th</sup>
held to
commemorate the 1991 coup against Aristide and to protest
his house arrest.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size:
13px;">It lives in the corruption of a
$1.50 tax on money transfers and a 5 cent per minute tax on
phone calls to
Haiti to support “education,” never ratified by or presented
to Haiti’s
Parliament making them illegal, as most Haitians continue to
face unaffordable
school fees, and most Haitian teachers have not been paid for
months. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size:
13px;">It lives in Martelly’s travel <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">per diem</i> of $20,000 a
day, as his wife
receives $10,000, his children $7,500, and others in his inner
circle get
$4,000 daily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size:
13px;">It lives
in the destruction of encampments of tens of thousands of
still homeless
earthquake survivors, condemning them to a purgatory of barren
land far from
any basic services. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">It
lives in
the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">dubious use
of "eminent domain" to seize homes and properties
of downtown Port-au-Prince residents under the guise of
“redevelopment,” to
benefit Martelly cronies. </span><span style="font-family:
Verdana; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">It
survives
in the illegal seizure </span><span style="font-family:
Verdana; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">of property rights of
those who have lived for generations
on the island of Ile a Vache, plowing down beautiful forest
land to build an
airport and roads to develop luxury resorts.</span><span
style="font-family: Verdana; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">It’s
embedded
in the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/10/a-glittering-industrialparkfallsshortinhaiti.html"><span
style="font-family: Verdana; ">Caracol sweatshop free
trade zone</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">,
partially funded by the Clinton
Foundation, constructed in the north with earthquake funds,
although the
earthquake didn’t affect the north. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size:
13px;">It’s
embedded in the creation of a new army being trained to
replace the United
Nations MINUSTAH occupation force - an army of dictatorship
that will be used
to terrorize its own people, like those men now standing in
black ski masks
outside the home of President Aristide. One of the most
popular acts of
Aristide’s first administration was to disband the predatory
army in 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">Haitians
have
worked tirelessly to purge their country of Duvalierism
since they forced Baby
Doc to flee in 1986, but like a zombie that just won’t stay
dead, he returned
in 2011 with the blessing of Michel Martelly. Duvalierism
won’t die because
it’s embedded in an economic system </span><span
style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">controlled
by international capital</span><span style="font-family:
Verdana; "> and imposed by an international military
force, whose driving imperative is to create massive
individual wealth and
power for the few at the expense of the many. The gross
excesses of the
Duvaliers are but one example. </span><span
style="font-family: Verdana; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">But
Haitians
do not forget the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=399"><span
style="font-family: Verdana; ">great accomplishments of
the
Aristide and Lavalas governments</span></a><span
class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Verdana;
text-decoration: none; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: Verdana; ">and
they’re not willing to go back to the torture, murder, and
rape of the Duvalier
days. They protest in the streets almost daily and watch
over the Aristide home
in driving rain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; ">And
from
his home, Aristide continues to do exactly what he promised
he would do when he
returned – educate. UNIFA, the University of the Aristide
Foundation, just opened
for its third year </span><span style="font-family:
Verdana; ">with over 1000 students.<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> </i>The original Medical school has grown to
include schools in
Nursing, Law and Physical Therapy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size:
13px;">During the 2004 coup, the United States army
closed the school and seized the grounds to make it their
military
headquarters. Aristide and his wife, Mildred, reopened it upon
their return
from forced exile. UNIFA and the Aristide Foundation
headquarters serve as
vibrant community centers for education and organizing. As
such they present a
challenge to Martelly’s corrupt administration, whose
brutality and
vengefulness threaten not only Aristide’s person and the
institutions he’s
founded, but the essence of democracy in Haiti.<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size:
13px;">To keep up with Haiti information:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net/">http://www.haitisolidarity.net/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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