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    <b><u><span
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opens
          with new surge in mass resistance to US/UN interference</span></u></b><font
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          Still Marching to
          Overturn Stolen Election</span></b></p>
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          color="#000000">By Dave
          Welsh</font></span></p>
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          color="#000000">Jan. 7, 2016
          – The seemingly irresistible momentum of Haiti’s mass movement
          – combined with
          convincing evidence of widespread election fraud – have forced
          a surprise delay
          in the slow-motion theft of the 2015 national elections.</font></span></p>
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          color="#000000">Faced with
          December’s incredible outpouring of non-stop demonstrations
          throughout Haiti –
          and daily revelations of vote rigging and voter suppression in
          the Aug. 9 and
          Oct. 25 elections – the authorities were constrained to
          postpone the run-off
          that had been set for Dec. 27. But there’s no end to the
          maneuvering by Haiti’s
          ruling elite, outgoing President Martelly and their foreign
          backers, determined
          as they are to thwart the popular will in this election.</font></span></p>
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    <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
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            color="#000000">New U.S. Ambassador gives his
            “OK” to the faked election results</font></span></b></p>
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          color="#000000">Ambassador
          Peter Mulrean said he sees <i>“no evidence
            of massive electoral fraud.” <span> </span></i></font><font
          color="#000000">But his
          “see no evil” pose is contradicted by Martelly’s own new
          election commission.
          This body disclosed Jan. 4 that they studied 1,771 vote tally
          sheets and found
          92% had “serious irregularities” amounting to “massive fraud.”
          Then on Jan. 6 thousands
          marched to denounce Mulrean and Martelly: “Don’t steal our
          votes!” Ominously,
          while the people marched, a plane carrying top State
          Department operatives
          Thomas Shannon and Kenneth Merten touched down in Haiti.</font></span></p>
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          color="#000000">The 2015
          elections were plagued by endless incidents of ballot
          stuffing, vote buying,
          armed coercion, naked vote rigging all the way from polling
          place to final
          tabulation. Fanmi Lavalas, long the most popular political
          party in Haiti,
          described the Oct. 25 election as <b>“… a
            pre-planned fraudulent enterprise that stripped the
            elections of all credibility…”</b></font><font
          color="#000000">
          in its petition to the InterAmerican Commission on Human
          Rights. “These rigged
          elections of 2015 constitute … an attack on the national
          sovereignty … and a
          violation of the political rights of the Haitian people...”</font></span></div>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Key
              facts about the 2015 stolen
              election </span></b></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">78
                    out of 78 tally sheets</span></u></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">
                <b><u>tainted</u></b> – Dr. Maryse Narcisse, Lavalas
                candidate for
                President, called a meeting at the Vote Tabulation
                Center as part of her party’s
                legal challenge. In attendance were election officials,
                observers, representatives
                of the ruling PHTK party and another contesting smaller
                party Meksepa. They
                examined 78 randomly selected vote tally sheets (proces
                verbaux).<span>  </span>All present agreed that every
                one of the 78
                tally sheets was fraudulent, without exception. The
                US-backed election
                commission (CEP) then abruptly ended the
                legally-mandated verification process –
                invalidating those 78 particular tally sheets, but
                failing to check the over
                13,000 tally sheets still to be verified.<b>
                </b><u>With that, the CEP inexplicably accepted the
                  fraudulent election
                  “results” as legitimate.</u></span></p>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">U.N.
                    implicated</span></u></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">
                – Deputy Antoine Rodon Bien-Aime
                and two other PHTK candidates made a startling
                revelation about UNOPS, a UN
                agency assigned to transport ballot boxes to the
                Tabulation Center. They
                charged that <u>while in U.N. custody, the ballot boxes
                  were</u> <u>switched en
                  route with boxes of pre-filled-out ballots.</u>
                Separately, a National Palace
                official was involved in a vehicle accident in which
                pre-filled-out ballots,
                marked for the Presidential candidate of Martelly’s PHTK
                party, Jovenel Moise,
                spilled on the road.</span></p>
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            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Open
                    Letter to the U.N.</span></u></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">
                – 15 prominent Haitian
                intellectuals, outraged by “<u>clear involvement of U.N.
                  agencies in the fraud</u>
                that marred the elections,” wrote an Open Letter to the
                U.N. Mission stating, “the
                whole world is discovering, under pressure from the
                street…the truth of the
                biggest electoral fraud operation…for the last 30 years
                in Haiti.” </span></p>
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Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">
            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:14pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Experts
                    at election rigging</span></u></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">
                – Kenneth Merten was appointed
                US Special Haiti Coordinator in August to deal with the
                election crisis. He was
                also on the scene as US Ambassador for the 2010-11
                elections. Under orders from
                then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US favorite
                Martelly was catapulted
                from 3rd place into the run-off and ultimately the
                Presidency. CEP chair Pierre
                Opont <u>admitted last July that the US “rigged the
                  2010 election.”</u> </span></p>
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Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold">
            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:14pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">2015
                    election “cannot be decided
                    by the street</span></u></b><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">,”
                </span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Kenneth
                Merten said recently,
                pointing out the US had committed $31 million to fund
                the election, plus $2.8
                million to the National Police for election “security.”
                [Some 10,000 police and
                2,500 U.N. troops were deployed on election duty.] It’s
                clear the U.S. Embassy
                does not want “the street” to decide anything.</span></p>
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            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:14pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">For
                    sale: 1 seat in Parliament</span></u></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">
                – Speaking on Radio Metropole
                (12/17), Gerald Jean, candidate for Deputy (Congressman)
                for Ferrier, admitted
                he had paid US$15,000 to CEP member Yolette Mengual to
                ensure his victory in a
                disputed election. He told the radio audience he was
                angry that despite having
                made his payment, he did not win the seat he’d paid for.</span></p>
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            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:14pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><u><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Coup
                    plotters and Occupiers</span></u></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">
                – The self-described Core Group
                consists of the US, France & Canada, whose troops
                invaded Haiti in the 2004
                coup; Brazil, which heads the U.N. military occupation
                of Haiti; the EU, OAS
                and Spain. The Core Group accepted CEP’s fraudulent
                election results as “legitimate.”<b><span>                                                                                 
                  </span><span>                                                                                               
                  </span></b>-2-</span></p>
            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:14pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">International
                  Days in Solidarity
                  with the Haitian People</span></b></p>
            <p
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:14pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Inspired
                by
                the Haitians’ strong response to the election debacle,
                the Haiti Action
                Committee (HAC) issued a call for solidarity actions on
                Dec. 16<sup> </sup>–
                the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Haiti’s first free
                election in 1990. That
                was when Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide swept into the
                Presidency with
                two-thirds of the vote, on a platform of social and
                economic justice for the
                poor majority. But after barely seven months in office,
                Aristide was overthrown
                in a US-backed military coup in 1991.</span></p>
            <p
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
            <p
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:14pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">In
                2015,
                after being excluded for 11 years since a second
                US-sponsored coup in 2004,
                Aristide’s Lavalas party was finally able to run
                candidates again, headed by
                Presidential standard-bearer Dr. Maryse Narcisse. People
                in poor neighborhoods
                all over Haiti welcomed the grassroots campaign of Dr.
                Narcisse with obvious joy.
                And <span> </span>they marched on Dec. 16 against the
                brazen attempt to steal the election – in the cities and
                also in smaller places
                like Camp-Perrin and Port-Salut in the South.</span></p>
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style="color:black;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Meanwhile
          Haiti’s overseas supporters were organizing.
          The HAC call for Dec. 16<sup>th</sup> solidarity actions was
          widely promoted by
          the Haiti human rights community – activists, bloggers and
          organizations – on
          Facebook, Twitter and their websites. HAC’s Facebook post
          alone reached over
          4000 people. Thanks to this significant response, U.S.
          officials in <b>Washington,
            D.C.</b> received a flood of emails, phone calls and tweets
          on Dec. 16 and
          beyond. The message: 1) Stop supporting dictatorship and
          fraudulent elections
          in Haiti, and 2) Stop the US-financed terror against the poor
          majority who are
          fighting for democracy in Haiti.</span><font size="3"
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">In
            <b>Los Angeles</b> on Dec. 16, a delegation
            led by Global Women’s Strike visited the Consulates of
            Brazil, which commands
            the U.N. military force in Haiti, and Ecuador, which
            supplies troops for the
            U.N. occupation. Ecuador also</span><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"
            lang="EN-GB"> trained the special police
            unit BOID being used to terrorize grassroots Haitian
            communities. The
            delegation presented a letter protesting these countries’
            interference in Haiti.</span></p>
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style="color:black;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"
            lang="EN-GB">In </span><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Boston</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">
            the Haitian community rallied at
            the Consulate of Haiti, along with members of the Boston
            School Bus Drivers’
            Union, to protest the stolen election. Teach-ins about the
            history and current
            election in Haiti were held in <b>Miami</b>,
            at the meeting hall of the Haitian community organization
            Veye Yo; in <b>Oakland</b>; and at a university in <b>Windsor,
              Canada.</b> In <b>Palo Alto</b> (CA) students, many of
            whom
            have visited Haiti on solidarity delegations, held a
            teach-in and press
            conference. </span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">In
            <b>New York</b>, a coalition of Haitian groups
            demonstrated at the <b>United Nations</b>,
            denouncing the U.N. occupation and role in perpetrating the
            election fraud in
            Haiti. </span><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"
            lang="EN-GB">In <b>Buenos Aires</b>,
            the Haitian Democratic Committee in Argentina seized on
            Martelly’s presence in
            the country to issue a statement about vote fraud in Haiti.</span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">In<b>
              London </b>on Dec. 16, Global Women’s
            Strike and All African Women’s Group held a rally at the
            U.S. Embassy. Homemade
            signs said, “Black Lives Matter in Haiti, Too.” Luke Daniels
            from Caribbean
            Labour Solidarity said: “Got to tell the Yankees: Get out of
            Haiti, get out of
            the Caribbean, let people have their destiny.” </span><span
style="color:black;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"
            lang="EN-GB">Then 19 members of UK’s Parliament signed an
            Early Day Motion
            questioning “grave irregularities” in Haiti’s election. <span>                                                                        </span>-3-</span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Use
              of systematic terror against
              the people</span></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Fraud
effectively
            prevented Haiti’s voters from electing candidates of their
            choice.
            Instead, the ruling party’s handpicked Jovenel Moise, a
            banana exporter and
            political neophyte, miraculously emerged as the top
            first-round vote-getter for
            President. But state violence also played a role in
            suppressing the vote.</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">National
police
            and paramilitaries fired automatic weapons into working
            class areas like
            Arcahaie and Cite Soleil in the lead-up to the August 9 and
            October 25
            elections. Scores of people were killed, including two
            pregnant women and a
            7-year-old boy. Some were “disappeared,” never to be heard
            from again. Later,
            hooded paramilitary gangs attacked marchers in
            Port-au-Prince with machetes,
            pipes, hammers, and guns, killing young election protesters
            as police turned a
            blind eye. </span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><span>                                                                                                                                                                                                               

            </span></span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Now,
            people
            are noticing a rise in killings of local neighborhood
            organizers. During the
            Christmas holidays, the newly created special police unit
            BOID continued their
            killing spree in Lavalas strongholds of Port-au-Prince. But
            these death
            squad-type actions – reminiscent of those carried out by the
            Duvalier
            dictatorship, or under the murderous Latortue regime after
            the 2004 coup – have
            not deterred the resistance.</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><span>                                                                                                                                                                                                               

            </span></span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Still
              fighting for the goals of
              the 1804 Haitian Revolution</span></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Many
            have
            commented that the Haitian people, in their vast majority,
            are very aware of
            their history – proud inheritors of the Revolution of
            1791-1804, when Haiti
            defeated the army of Napoleon, ended plantation slavery and
            declared independence
            from France. The story of the Haitian Revolution has been
            passed on, in the
            oral tradition, from generation to generation. </span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">How
            does
            this connect with their battle in the streets today, to stop
            the ongoing
            “electoral coup d’etat” – to have their votes counted, their
            choices honored,
            and their country’s sovereignty respected? </span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">“It’s
            on
            every lip,” said one Lavalas activist we spoke with. “People
            are saying that in
            rejecting this stolen election, we are lighting the fires of
            struggle, continuing
            the fight for equality and sovereignty that our ancestors
            fought for 200 years
            ago.”</span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">The
author,
                a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council, was a
                member of a Human
                Rights and</span></i></b><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">
              <b>Labor Fact Finding Delegation to Haiti in October,
                which reported on
                systematic voter suppression, violence, fraud and
                intimidation in the election
                process.</b></span></i></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="4" face="times new
            roman,serif">For more
            information, connect with the Haiti Action Committee:</font></p>
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        </font>
        <p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><a
            href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net/" target="_blank"><b><font
                size="4" color="#0000ff" face="times new roman,serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net">www.haitisolidarity.net</a></font></b></a><b><font
              face="Georgia"><font size="2"><font size="4"><font
                    face="times new roman,serif">     @HaitiAction1     
                    and on Facebook</font><font face="times new
                    roman,serif">  <span></span></font></font></font><span><font
                  size="5"> </font></span><font size="5"><span> </span><span>    </span><span> </span></font></font></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
              style="color:red;font-size:11pt"><font face="Georgia">Take
                action – Tell U.S. officials: </font></span></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
              style="color:red;font-size:11pt"><font face="Georgia">1.
                Stop supporting fraudulent elections in
                Haiti</font></span></b></p>
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        </font>
        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
              style="color:red;font-size:11pt"><font face="Georgia">2.
                Stop support for police terror in Haiti</font></span></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span
              style="color:red;font-size:10pt"><font face="Georgia"> </font></span></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-size:9pt"><font
                face="Georgia">White House<span>  </span>202
                456 1111<span>   </span>@POTUS<span>                          
                </span>Members of Congress
                <a href="tel:202%20224%203121" target="_blank"
                  value="+12022243121">202 224 3121</a></font></span></b></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-size:9pt"><font
                face="Georgia">State Dept<span>  </span>@JohnKerry<span>        
                </span>Kenneth Merten <a href="tel:202%20647%209510"
                  target="_blank" value="+12026479510">202 647 9510</a><span>      
                </span><a
                  href="mailto:HaitiSpecialCoordinator@state.gov"
                  target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:HaitiSpecialCoordinator@state.gov">HaitiSpecialCoordinator@state.gov</a></a></font></span></b></p>
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