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Hillary Clinton, Rene Preval, Kenneth Merten, Jean-Max Bellerive, Cheryl Mills
Here is a picture of Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Haitian President Rene Preval, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, US embassador Kenneth Merten and Cheryl Mills, chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, together under a tent following the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010
One, Former President Bill Clinton helped raised millions of dollars for the country. As bothe Bill and Hillary Clinton stated Haiti was the first place they visited after their wedding in 1975.
However, the delivery of the help collected was not very successful. The brother of Hillary Clinton, Tony Rodham, as rumored to ha e been involved in insider deals in Haiti. Other criticised the family for their closeness with President Michel Martelly, whom many think did not do a good job managing the country
Chelsea Clinton email Dad, Mom on Haitian relief incompetence
Chelsea Clinton in an email to her mother and father explained some of the problems see has been able to observe regarding the Haitian relief efforts.
Recently, on September 1, the U.S State Department has released an email from Chelsea Clinton, addressed to her "Dad" and "Mom". In the email sent, sometime in 2010 after Chelsea's four days visit to Haiti, she did warn her parents that the United Nation's handling of international relief efforts in Haiti excepting UNICEF was a disaster; an immediate change in the organization, management, accountability and delivery paradigm on the ground is needed. Otherwise, we have to confront with the deaths of thousands of children of diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid and other water-related diseases in the near future. Her criticisms were mainly focused on the efforts of the UN and international NGOs. She had described the UN people as "frequently out of touch," "anachronistic at best and arrogant and incompetent at worst," The story does not end here....
During the period when Hillary Clinton was with the State Department as Secretary of State between January 21, 2009 to February 1, 2013, the USAID had disbursed $3.6 billion for Haitian "earthquake relief". At the same time, her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, was collecting money on behalf of Haiti to his own private foundation from foreign governments. When Hillary Clinton resigned from the State Department, her brother Tony Rodham, out of the blue, luckily got an appointment as a director of a company which had managed to acquire a lucrative gold mining contract in Haiti. Haitian lawyer and human rights activist, Ezili Dantò has accused Bill Clinton responsible for $6 billion collected on account of Haitian relief fund. Dantò has claimed that only 1% of this amount was made available to the Haitian government.
Chelsea Clinton with Clinton Foundation In Haiti
Here is a picture of Chelsea Clinton, the Daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. She is to visit the Clinton Foundation Projects In Haiti on Tuesday, July 28, and Wednesday, July 29, with Clinton and Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala
The Clinton Foundation, founded by former president Bill Clinton, is a non-profit organization that aims to increase global health and wellness, create equal opportunity, empower women and also establish harmony between the different communities. On 28 and 29 July, the President of the Clinton Foundation, Donna Shalala and the Vice-chairperson, Chelsea Clinton will be visiting the foundations in Haiti that are working for the country's development. They will be accompanied by significant businesspersons and philanthropists. Their main objective is the economic development of Haiti alongside the women empowerment programs, educational development, improvement of the way of life, etc. The Clinton Foundation has been raising funds for Haiti since 2010, and in 5 years they have raised around $30 million. A branch of the Clinton Foundation, The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP), focuses on the marketing of local goods in Haiti. The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is also another arm of the Foundation that is making efforts to provide sustainable jobs to the people and improving Haiti's scope as a country for prospective investment.
Bill Hillary Clinton and their experience with Haitian Voodoo
Here is a picture of the young couple Bill and Hillary Clinton.
The former U.S President Bill Clinton visited Haiti for the first time in 1975 on a trip sponsored by his friend David Edwards as a wedding gift. When he wrote his autobiography "My Life" in 2004, he mentioned his first encounter with voodoo as the "the most interesting day of the trip". He witnessed a voodoo practice in a village near Port-au-Prince. There the rites were performed by a priest named Max Beauvoir, a former chemical engineer who had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Clinton described his first experience with voodoo as a culture, that practices to make sense of life and nature; it virtually works with the universal belief that there is a nonphysical spiritual force at work in the world. Then Clinton was a law professor who had once lost his battle of political campaign, considering for a second run. The priest Beauvoir gave him a brief course in voodoo theology, he decided for a second run and that turned out to be a success. This time, he won -- and was on his way to the White House. Bill learnt one good lesson from Haiti and he wrote: "The Lord works in mysterious ways." Once a Voodoo sorcerer was supplied to him by his friend, the exiled-by-coup John-Bertrand Aristide, and that sorcerer put a curse on the incumbent President George W. Bush, "by manipulating a doll made in the President' s image."
Hillary Clinton in visit in Haiti
Here is a picture of the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a visit in Haiti in a factory to observe the implementation of several development projects. These projects in the manufacturing industry in Haiti were made possible thanks to the new Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act or the Hope Act.
On 16 December 2006, U.S. Congress voted the "HOPE" Act in an effort to provide economic opportunities to the people of Haiti
One major thing is that the Hope Act opens the doors for Haiti to get free commercial access to the US market without any import tariffs or duties. They are mainly textile products.
As part of HOPE, the Haitian government gave up the rights to control products imported into the country