By Jean Hervé Charles, LLB, MSW, JD

Presidential candidate for the party PENH / 18 as in 1804

A message and exhortation to the businessmen, the media managers and foreign friends of Haiti who want to and still can help us reverse the hellish situation in Haiti.

The elections on August 9 and the electoral contests that will take place October 25 indicate that we are facing in Haiti a nation in disarray and a population in distress.

The decomposition of Haiti began with the assassination of the Emperor Jean Jacques Dessalines 209 years ago, two years after the epic victory of 1804; this drama shook the world since the colonial structure that lasted 300 years thought it was unshakable and eternal.

The 22 heroes and gallant soldiers of independence won this feat; they challenged the triangular alliance to affirm to the world that every man is a divine product, worthy of respect, admiration and support to fulfill the destiny that the Creator has entrusted to him.

However, this decomposition of the nation and its citizens has accelerated for the past 60 years after the exile of Paul Eugene Magloire. He had to leave Haiti because he did not use elegance at the end of his mandate to organize promptly new elections.

It has been the fate of the country since then, where the love of power has taken precedence over the love of the country. The Duvaliers clearly muzzled the population and allied themselves with the neo-colonialists to bury the development of Haiti after the Second World War.

For over 30 years, the achievements of modernity have bypassed Haiti to go elsewhere. The advent of democracy in 1987, which was to bring milk and honey and manna long awaited by the population, has only delayed or even buried all hopes for a better day.

In fact, the basic services and excellent infrastructure that would entrench the people in their locality have not only vanished but the rule of law imposed by the dictatorship has never materialized during that democracy that was only in name but not in fact.

The Aristide’s Lavalas doctrine, despite a contrary indication, has brought to Haiti, as the name suggests, debris decadence of the past and trash of the present. Cleaning up this debris has not yet begun, like a parasitic plant the doctrine has embodied into the ethos of the population. It believes that she bathes in a healthy spa while it is harmful to its future.

Michel Joseph Martelly, elected as a rejection of the doctrine of René Préval, the Siamese brother of Jean Bertrand Aristide, has brought solace ultimately for his close friends only, leaving the population in confusion.

The press, as a safety valve to facilitate the orderly departure of governments that did wrong for their people but refuse to go away, became, in part, a press pursuing the source of the money not even worrying about the elegance of the profession, which is none other than a priestly function and a service to the nation and to the world for the common good of humanity.

The opposition wants to overturn the account and the game tables. It seeks only its profit while taking us further into the abyss of the transition that started with the aborted elections of November 28, 1987. It has been the primary source of our misfortunes to date. If we have marched on the dead as the valiant soldiers of 1804 on the day of that election, we might have today a good and hospitable Haiti for all today

Will the political change ensuing after the balloting of 25 October 2015 take place with the consent of the people for a better tomorrow?

There is still time to turn things around and start again as before 17 October 1806 to rebuild Haiti. It can still become the Pearl of the Antilles but this time, after the colonial era. I have defined the problems and solutions in my book: A Better Haiti for All Is Possible with Jean Hervé Charles as President of Haiti.

The solutions of the problem are simple, in fact they are symptomatic of failed states that bounced back; example, Singapore, Rwanda, South Korea, Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Here are the problems:

1. The lack of sense of belonging for the creation of a common country according to the doctrine of Ernest Renan on how to build a great nation.

2. The lack of sound institutions and excellent infrastructure to entrench the population in its area so that it is no more nomadic in its own country, hindering any organized urbanization and development.

3. The lack of the sense of citizenship in the population to galvanize especially the middle class in favour of those who stayed behind so that they catch up the rest of the successful family.

4. Finally the necessary leadership of the state and the citizens to find and fill out the special destiny given to this nation by the Creator of the universe.

My vision and my government of a budget of $8 billion are envisaged to fulfill all four conditions for building a good nation and shaping good citizens.

• Build the nation with a sense of belonging so the division no longer exists among all components of the nation: the rural against the urban world, the lack of citizen sense to incubate those who still and always vegetate in misery of a de facto apartheid system more pernicious than the de jure apartheid one because it is part of our culture of disrespecting the underprivileged class.

• Construct the country with excellent infrastructure and sound institutions from the rural section to the capital so that the population will settle happily in their catchment area.

• Agree that an urgent affirmative priority will be considered for those who are marginalized so that they catch up the rest of the population. This will be done through the PPP (public private partnerships) to incubate and accompany them in their production so that the quality and the quantity of the product will provides sufficient income to propel them into the middle class status.

• And finally Haiti regains its sovereignty while engaging in its divine mission of emancipating nation by spreading the Haitian dream for all which is nothing else than the right and the means for each individual to reach his goal of self-fulfillment.

I can meet this challenge since the population is ready. They are tired of the fact that elections have not made a better and real change in their lifestyle. If only my message of a hospitable nation for all, rich and poor is possible in Haiti reaches the population.

I opted for the individual channel to transmit the message. The book, this article and the well prepared and illustrated pamphlets can do the job as long as I can find the means to inform the six million voters.

I urge you to help us build a Haiti that will be good for all. It will be good for you, businessmen since you will have a population of ten million inhabitants with extraordinary purchasing power to consume your production. It will be good for the majority of the population. They will become good citizens because misery and despair will no longer be their lot.

The game is in your hands. We will be winners or losers depending on whether you choose to play your part and help us build this beautiful Haiti that will be rich, powerful and hospitable for all, especially for his own children. I send you my deepest patriotic feelings and my most cordial greetings.

IMAGE: charles.jpg Jean Hervé Charles LLB, MSW, JD, Candidate for the Presidency On the PENH Party, Party for National development Haitian / 18 as in 1804 18 as May 18 and 18 as November 18

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