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<div dir="ltr">Haiti Action Committee is honored to circulate this
statement from <i>Fanmi Lavalas, the people’s party of Haiti.
As threats of a new foreign invasion ramp up, Lavalas states,
in the clearest terms, the need for<br>
continued popular mobilization to produce a genuine Haitian
solution to the crisis. We hope you will read it and circulate
it widely.</i><br>
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<div><b><font size="4">Fanmi Lavalas Press Release October 12,
2022</font></b> [unofficial translation by Haiti Action
Committee]<br>
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Haiti is going through one of the most difficult periods in its
history. But this grave situation has begun long before today.
The country, specifically the majority population, the main
victim, has been suffering greatly as a result of one coup
d'etat after another, meddling by the International community,
corruption, impunity and a government that is in the service of
the economic mafia.<br>
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<div>We must remember that since the kidnapping/coup d'etat of
February 29, 2004, the occupation of the country has caused
more corruption, more massacres in the popular/working-class
neighborhoods, more impunity, more hunger, more misery, more
actors in the economic sector who have allied themselves with
gangs that are increasing the digging of graves daily. Many
billions of dollars were spent for the occupation, and for
what? The situation has continued to worsen, as we all can
attest. This calamity is the result of the 2004 coup.<br>
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<div>While the cholera epidemic has re-surfaced to kill more
people, prisoners are dying of disease, starvation and
mistreatment day and night. When it comes to the excessive
cost of gasoline, it has fallen upon us like a deadly bomb. <br>
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<div>If we do not overturn this cauldron of misery, there will
be no better life for Haiti. The solution for Haiti is in the
hands of Haitians. The mobilization against the system of
corruption must not stop. All of us who are opposed to a
foreign military intervention, let us put the well-being of
our Country before any ambition for political power or any
ambition for economic power.</div>
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All of those honest forces who represent the economic and
political strength of our country, the time has come for us to
sit down with respect for each other.<br>
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<div>Yes, the time has come to find together how we will stop
the machine of insecurity that is spreading death everywhere
in the country. Yes, it is not too late! The future of Haiti
is in our own hands, Haitian People.</div>
Together, let us safeguard our dignity.<br>
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<div><b>Alone we are weak, Together we are strong, All Together,
WE ARE LAVALAS </b></div>
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<div><b>Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas</b></div>
Dr. Maryse Narcisse<br>
M. Joël Edouard Vorbe<br>
Dr. Jean Myrto Julien<br>
Agr. Anthony Dessources<br clear="all">
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alt="FLOct122022.png" class="" width="343" height="393"><br>
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<div><span>Celebrating 30
years of solidarity with
the anti-colonial
grassroots struggle for
dignity, democracy and
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