Monthly Archives: December 2013

Dec 25 2013

Nicolas Duvalier Possibly Running For Office Gets Lavalas Going Ballistic

Nicolas Duvalier posing with kids at a toy distribution event for Christmas.

Nicolas Duvalier posing with kids at a toy distribution event for Christmas.

These Lavalas folks are in a state of panic attack –after they got the news that NICOLAS DUVALIER, the son of former President Jean Claude Duvalier, could be running for some type of elected office in Haiti. They are now making all types of nonsensical statements to prove that him running for office is an insult to the Haitian people.

Now I feel compelled to really talk to these folks. History is there to judge all of us, not just the Duvaliers. Don’t judge Nicolas based on his dad’s political accomplishments or report card, which he has absolutely nothing to do with, when you did not do any better when you had your chance to run the country and make a positive difference.

Lavalas came in power in Haiti after the fall of the Duvalier regime and spent 20 years destroying everything Duvalier had left behind. The 20 years of the Lavalas regime [1991-2011] had moved the country 50 years back. We are now in the past playing catch-up towards the future. And you want to blame all the problems and setbacks of the country solely on the Duvaliers? When will you be bold enough to assume your part of the blame?

Lavalas has the nerve badmouthing the Duvaliers because they ran Haiti with an iron fist -a dictatorship so to speak. Well, at least we knew we were dealing with a pure dictatorship, not one with a mask of democracy -like Aristide had it.

Lavalas came in power in 1991 and did the exact same thing they are now blaming the Duvaliers for. You would be a fool to believe that under the Lavalas regime Haiti had a democracy. Aristide had his armed thugs [chimè, rat pa kaka, etc.] on the streets terrorizing the population; muzzling the press; lynching journalists, professionals, business owners, etc… He had plunged the country in a total state of institutionalized lawlessness and chaos. That’s what had gotten the people to come together on their feet as one to drag him out of power in 2004.

You are accusing the Duvaliers of emptying our treasury, right? Show me that you Lavalas did not do just as worse. Your administrations were corrupted. In fact, Aristide came in power as a poor defrocked priest who did not even have an income, he left multimillionaire. We are still waiting on him to tell us what he had done with the money of these poor Haitians who had placed all their hard-earned earnings in “cooperative” investments. He ransacked all these accounts. He is a crook in disguise.

I could go on and on, but I am going to stop here for now. But don’t assume that only the Duvaliers have a past. You Lavalas have one, too. In fact, yours is recent history, meaning fresh in our memory bank. Yet, in spite of all, your organization [Fanmi Lavalas] is still trying so desperately to make a comeback. And you have the nerve telling us that NICOLAS DUVALIER running for elected office is an insult to the Haitian people? How dare you!

All I am saying to my Lavalas folks is this: you should be the last group of people in our political world to be judging Nicolas Duvalier. If he meets all the requirements set by the electoral organization, only his constituency can determine if he is not good enough for them. Meanwhile, if he decides to run, instead of wasting your time judging him based on his father’s report card, which I think is futile -since he has nothing to do with that, you better get yourself ready to send someone capable and qualified to challenge him. Otherwise, he will be elected, and that will be your worst nightmare.

Dec 16 2013

Lavalas: Rache Manyòk Pimal Pase Kolera

Lavalasyen frè ak sè mwen yo sipoze sispann pèdi tan yo nan yon mouvman rache manyòk ki pa p abwouti a anyen, e yo konnen sa pibyen pase m paske reyalite jeopolitik nan mond la pa p pèmèt sa fèt. Alòs, olye ke yo chita ap envesti tout tan ak enèji yo nan yon mouvman ke pèson moun pa ka wè ki kote yo pral avèk li, m panse li t ap fè plis sans pou yo ta fikse zye yo sou 2016 –ki, dayè, pa twò lwen –pou yo komanse ap prepare yo pou yo pran pouvwa a.

M pa p ba nou manti… bagay rache manyòk yo a ap fè anpil moun kanpe lwen yo, espesyalman lè yo pa gen okenn altènatif a Prezidan Martelly. Yo pa janm kapab di kisa k ap vini aprè rache manyòk yo a –pou evite peyi a tonbe nan yon tchouboum ki san fen.

Mouvman rache manyòk la, ke moun Lavalas yo lanse andedan peyi a, bagay sa a pimal pase kolera ki t ap touye pitit pèp la nan kat kwen peyi a tèlman li pa bon. Li se yon manjezon ki vin pou detwi nou. Alòs fòk se enbesil sèlman pou noumenm –ki gen yon sèvo pou nou reflechi –ta enbesil pou nou ta monte nan batiman rache manyòk yo a avèk yo. Si yo vle ale nwaye tèt yo sou dlo a, sa a se zafè k gade yo. Men yo pa p jwenn moun tankou m ki pou swiv yo.

Moman an rive pou nou mete emosyon nou akote, pou nou itlize sèvo nou pou nou fè bagay yo yon lòt jan. Ou pa pran desizyon [sitou desizyon ki gen a wè ak peyi] nan emosyon ak voye monte. Dosye sa a twò serye pou nou antre nan kalonnen, voye monte avek li.

Prezidan Martelly ap fè 5 lane li a san manke yon yota. Aprè sa, l ap òganize eleksyon pou nou asire kontinwite demokratik la kòmsadwa.

Prezidan Martelly gentan antre nan dezyèm pati manda li a. Li pa rete anpil tan pou li fini epi pou nou antre nan eleksyon. Avan nou bat je nou, l ap gentan lè pou nou kòmanse ap chofe nou ak soulye foutbòl nou nan pye nou, abiman nou sou nou pou nou ale monte teren eleksyon an pou n al chwazi pwochen prezidan an ki pral pran mayèt la nan men Prezidan Martelly a.

Lavalasyen frè ak sè mwen yo sipoze ap travay kounyè a nan mete bon estrikti nan pati yo a, devlope estrateji pou yo kapab rale moun sou yo. Si yo pa fè travay preparasyon sa yo kounyè a la, olye yo chita ap gaspiye tan nan rache manyòk, kilè y ap kòmanse fè l? Y ap tann se lè eleksyon pral fèt pou yo fè l? Lè sa a, l ap twò ta. Si ou bezwen pran pouvwa a tout bon vre nan eleksyon [aprè Prezidan Martelly], se depi kounyè a wi pou w mete w sou travay.

Eleksyon prezidansyèl 2016 la sipoze enteresan, istorik ak san konparezon nan eksperyans demokratik nou antanke yon nasyon. Nan espri sa a, nou fèt pou nou ankouraje meyè nan jèn politisyen nou yo pou yo antre fon nan batay la pou yo kouri pou prezidan. Sa ap pèmèt nou bay deba politik ki gen pou fèt yo nan sosyete a bon jan jarèt, e se sa a tou k ap pèmèt noumenm antanke sitwayen avize pou nou kapab fè yon chwa ki eklere pami jèn kandida sa yo ki gen pou kouri pou chèz boure a. Nou sipoze chwazi pami jèn politisyen sa yo kandida ki pi kapab la e ki montre nou ke [de pa kalifikasyon e eksperyans li] li kapab kontinye kondi peyi a sou wout devlopman an.

Ala bèl sa ta bèl pou n ta gen sou tab jwèt la kandida tankou Laurent Lamothe, Dr. Garry Conille, Edmonde Supplice, elatriye pou nou chwazi pami yo moun ki gen pou ranplase Prezidan Martelly a –aprè manda li a fini an.

Se pou nou sispann antre tèt nou nan lojik fè politik demagojik nèg yo toujou renmen fè a –pou nou serye avèk pèp la. Nou sipoze angaje nou nan antame bon deba politik ki fè sans –kote n ap ekspoze pwoblèm yo, n ap debat altènatif yo epi n ap chwazi ki altènatif k ap pibon pou peyi a.

Popilism se yon bagay ki trè danjere pou peyi a; se yon manjezon sa ye paske li toufe tout posiblite pou bon deba serye pran jarèt nan sosyete a. E depi nou pa ka byen debat pwoblèm yo kòmsadwa, n ap pran vye desizyon tèt chat k ap mete nou nan kouri pita.

Sa k bay demokrasi jarèt se posiblite ke tout moun alawonnnbadè nan sosyete a genyen pou yo ekspoze pwoblèm yo k ap brase bil sosyete a, pale de yo, analize yo, trete yo epi vin ak solisyon pou nou rezoud yo. Se konsa sa fèt isit Ozetazini ak tout lòt peyi nan mond la kote demokrasi ap byen mache e byen fonksyone.

Dec 9 2013

The Way To Beat Lavalas In The Next Elections

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Lavalas knows very well that “rache manyòk” is not feasible, so their mobilization on the streets is nothing but a part of their campaign strategy to imposingly win the next elections.

They were very dormant for the past two years, so they had got to find a way to wake up their troops and get them on their feet once and for all.

The Tèt Kale camp needs to take this wave of sporadic protests very seriously. They must not play the game of their opponent. Otherwise, they will know an embarrassing defeat.

The Tèt Kale Political Action Committees (PACs) must not let their camp lose the political edge to the Lavalas sector -if they want to outperform them (the Lavalas sector) in the next elections. Be mindful of the fact that the main purpose behind all these protests is to win the political edge.

By definition, a Political Action Committee (PAC) is a type of organization that gathers campaign money from members and donates those funds for the purpose of influencing an election. It may engage in unlimited political spending independently of the campaign to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.

How to prevent Lavalas?

Effective political campaigns cannot be possibly run without money. So you need money to effectively campaign against your opponents. The game has long changed.

If the Tèt Kale PACs want to capitalize on the next elections, among many things they need to do, they need to wage an aggressive and brutal media war against Lavalas.

The Tèt Kale PACs, with small 30- to 60-second political spots (audio and video), need to hit the mainstream radio and TV stations in Haiti and the Diaspora and all the social networking sites. The content of these spots is what will determine their effectiveness. So expert advice is highly warranted to put these spots together.

The purpose of these spots is to highlight the reasons (based on historical data) as to why Lavalas is bad for the country in this era of modernization and social and economic development and why their candidates represent what the country needs to keep moving forward.

Also, the Tèt Kale sector needs to select winnable candidates with a clean record to represent them in these elections. That means a vetting committee needs to be instituted to thoroughly examine the records of these potential candidates before they are selected.

Lavalas can be beaten easily. It will depend on the game plan of the Tèt Kale sector. As I often say, when the playing field is leveled for all the players, the team with the best strategy is the one poised to win the contest.