- (LPAC)-Lyndon LaRouche issued an urgent call for the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work with the Haitian government to help
relocate up to a million Haitians, now homeless and living amid the rubble
of shattered Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake
that killed some 300,000 Haitians.
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- The immediate emergency, LaRouche noted, is that the
rainy season is upon us, and under current conditions, Port-au-Prince within
a month or two will be subjected to floods, hit by mudslides, and become
inundated in deadly sewage from the 1.5 million people who are now homeless
and destitute in that city. These people have been forced to live in the
streets and slums under ramshackle pieces of plastic, and amid human excrement
that is not being removed-because there is no ability to do so, nor even
a place to take it.
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- Even before the earthquake, Haiti-long the victim of
the globalization and free trade policies of London-centered financial
predators-did not have a single sewage treatment plant.
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- If we do not act, LaRouche stressed, Haiti will soon
face conditions in which dengue, cholera, malaria, typhoid and other epidemics
will spread, with devastating consequences. Haiti is the image of what
awaits all of humanity under the current, bankrupt British-imperial international
financial system: it is the face of the New Dark Age. We must stop it in
Haiti, if we are to have the moral fitness to survive on this planet.
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- To prevent another wave of mass deaths and total national
disintegration, a bilateral treaty agreement between the United States
and Haiti should be promptly reached to evacuate up to a million people
from this potentially deadly situation into the United States on an interim
basis, and possibly into inland parts of Haiti as well. Under a reasonable
Presidency, the U.S. can mobilize the capacity to do that, and we can further
use our military capacity, through the Army Corps of Engineers, to either
rebuild semi-permanent housing, or reopen military bases with barracks,
including those shut down under the BRAC commission.
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- Full reconstruction in Haiti will take up to 25 years,
LaRouche has pointed out, but in the short term it is possible to build
new relocation camps and even cities outside of Port-au-Prince, where the
essentials of life can be provided: food, water, sanitation, a roof over
their heads, and sufficient energy and electricity to make all this possible.
Even under a dysfunctional, impeachable President Obama, the United States
must act, and act quickly, LaRouche stated.
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- In his Jan. 30 international webcast, LaRouche responded
to a question about Haiti, saying that the United States has to take the
kind of approach that Presidents like Lincoln and Roosevelt did:
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- "You cannot apply a band-aid to Haiti. And you can
not bring in many other countries, because the objective is, if the country
is going to be viable, coming out of this mess, you have to have a sovereign
Haiti. So, the contract has to be essentially, a United States treaty agreement,
a treaty agreement to re-establish the efficient sovereignty of the nation
of Haiti, after the destructive effect of this and preceding difficulties...
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- "[Haiti] is a small nation, of people who have been
subjected to all kinds of terrible history; who have been promised this,
and betrayed, and promised that, and betrayed, and promised and betrayed.
Never delivered. It's in a group of national territories which has also
tended to be somewhat of a mess, in one way or the other. So, therefore,
it's a model approach: We make a contract with the government, as a treaty
agreement, between the United States and Haiti, to assure the rebuilding
of their country, in a form in which it will actually be a functioning
country which can survive."
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