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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Minister of Economy and Finance Wilson Laleau confirmed the information from Senator Jocelerme Privert who said that there would be a $419 million [US] deficit in the 2013 budget. But Minister Laleau was unable to provide any actions that the government would take to address the problem.

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05.21.2013: Minister Wilson Laleau speaking to journalist of Vision 2000

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05.21.2013: Economists Eddie Labossiere and Gerald Chery react to financial news on Vision 2000. Report by David Mezi

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Minister of Economy and Finance Wilson Laleau confirmed the information from Senator Jocelerme Privert who said that there would be a $419 million [US] deficit in the 2013 budget. But Minister Laleau was unable to provide any actions that the government would take to address the problem.

Senator Privert said on Monday May 20, 2013 that the government of Michel Martelly was 9 billion HTG ($204 million [US]) in the red for its accounting after 6 months and was trending towards being nearly a half billion USD in the red by year's end.

Approached by journalists, Wilson Laleau, who also holds the post of Minister of Commerce and Industry, praised Senator Jocelerme Privert before agree with him:

Wilson Laleau justified the deficits in accounting by pointing to past administrations which he said managed the same kind of deficits.

The answer for Haiti's Minister of Finance was to further equip the tax and customs institutions in order to collect more revenue. Two prominent economists suggested that the Haitian government curb expenditures until a solution is found for the deficit.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil (defend.ht) - On Wednesday Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe met with the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs to work on a plan of action to stop the illegal migration of Haitians in to Brazil. Lamothe is traveling in Brazil for 5 days holding discussions towards getting assistance in the areas of education, technology, science, infrastructure, health, energy, food security, social inclusion, defense and biofuels.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (defend.ht) - On Wednesday Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe met with the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs to work on a plan of action to stop the illegal migration of Haitians in to Brazil. Lamothe is traveling in Brazil for 5 days holding discussions towards getting assistance in the areas of education, technology, science, infrastructure, health, energy, food security, social inclusion, defense and biofuels.

"We will have a Board of Police who will also act on the issue of migration," said Lamothe after his meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Patriota. "We invite the Embassy of Brazil in Haiti to meet our plan of action and are working with the awareness that tries to discourage coyotes networks, facilitating illegal migration," said Lamothe to journalists following the meeting.

Brazil has experienced in the last month a wave of migration in its state of Acre, which borders Peru and Bolivia, of more than a thousand illegal travelers most from Haiti.

Lamothe told the Brazilians that Haiti has overcome various difficulties, arising from the destruction caused by the earthquake in January 2010, and still needs international help. According to him, it is essential to support the foreign community in the areas of education, physical reconstruction, combating extreme poverty and energy production.

"Always respecting the sovereignty," he said. Regarding the gradual withdrawal of troops from the United Nations Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH), Lamothe confirmed that there must be a schedule set for withdrawal by 2016. In parallel, Haiti will enhance the national police, whose training is in progress said the Haitian Prime Minister.

"It is necessary to work more dynamically. With bilateral cooperation, we believe we can streamline, and on the day that the troops withdraw, we will be 100% ready," he said.

Lamothe also met with the Minister of Mines and Energy, Edison Lobao, to discuss technical cooperation agreements electrification in Haiti.

The government of Brazil has developed several cooperation projects with Haiti. In the event of Minustah, perspective, according to the UN schedule, 2016 is gradually withdraw all foreign troops who are in the country. The idea is to strengthen the local security forces.

Expected at the end of the month the opening of the first community hospital reference, built by the partnership of the governments of Brazil, Cuba and Haiti in Good Repos, the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince , the Haitian capital.

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Prime Minister of Haiti is in Brazil for a series of meetings with officials and Brazilian businessmen, traveling in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

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PARIS, France (defend.ht) - French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira said she supports a redistribution of land in France's Caribbean overseas territories to help the descendants of slaves. She said this two days after French President Francois Hollande said reparations for slavery impossible.

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PARIS, France (defend.ht) - French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira said she supports a redistribution of land in France's Caribbean overseas territories to help the descendants of slaves. She said this two days after French President Francois Hollande said reparations for slavery impossible.

“In the overseas territories there was a land grab, the general result was that the descendants of slaves were left without access to land. Therefore we should think about – without sparking a civil war – regrouping properties that were divided and about land reform,” Taubira said in an interview published in the Journal de Dimanche weekly on Sunday.

“There are steps that should be taken, without expropriations, and clearly explaining the reason behind the state’s push to purchase land,” Taubira added.

CRAN an organization looking to sue the French state-owned bank for Haiti's independence debt welcomed Taubira’s announcement, saying land reform was another important way France could atone for its past mistakes.

“I am overjoyed to hear of Mrs. Taubira’s announcement,” CRAN president Luis-Georges Tin told FRANCE 24. “It’s clear that Mr. Hollande is an uncomfortable position. He is coming off as a man who turns people away, who tells the victims of slavery ‘too bad’.”

Tin said that the kind of land reform his group has championed – and that Taubira has espoused – would not lead to expropriations, claiming the state owned many tracts of unused land in the overseas territories.

“Our colleagues overseas have heard the announcement loud and clear… we all expect to be contacted quickly by Mrs. Taubira and the government to figure out how to put this policy in place,” Tin noted, adding that the new announcement would in no way dissuade his group from suing the CDC.

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