Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced the donation during an official visit to Haiti, and said Unasur would also establish a political and technical secretariat in the country to assist with reconstruction plans.

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa (L) and Haiti's President Rene Preval

Correa, who currently holds Unasur’s rotating presidency, arrived in Port-au-Prince on Monday night and travelled by helicopter to the country’s north to survey projects being financed by the group and implemented by troops from the organization’s member states.

“We do not want to exercise humanitarian imperialism in Haiti,” he said.

“We want to begin a new form of South-South cooperation, respecting the sovereignty of the Haitian people, and with the belief that the real development actors in Haiti are the Haitian people.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Rene Preval has meet with 2010 presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean for more than two hours, discussing everything from the hip hop artist’s safety to relations with the neighboring Dominican Republic. Jean tells the Associated Press that he felt Thursday’s exchange with Rene Preval was positive.

Earlier in the week, Jean said he had received death threats. Jean said Preval expressed concern and offered Jean security.

Wyclef Jean and several dozen other presidential candidates — are scheduled to find out Friday if the country’s electoral council allows them to run for office.

About 200 people wound through the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, which along with other areas home to wealthy Haitians was a one-time centre of the leader’s support.

They also carried pictures of his bespectacled father, the late Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier. Their clothes were the colors of the dictatorial-era Haitian flag.

Saturday is the anniversary of the date in 1959 when the father founded his Tonton Macoute secret police. The force officially known as the Militia of National Security Volunteers killed, tortured and extorted from countless Haitians.

Their march is not held every year but is common during times of political trouble in the Caribbean nation.

Haitian leaders are currently struggling to hold a scheduled election on time, with help from the United Nations and Organization of American States. President Rene Preval has said that he will stay in office up to three extra months past the end of his term next year if a new leader is not chosen by Nov. 28.

Duvalier fled a 1986 popular rebellion into exile and now lives in Paris. He is just 59 years old. True to his nickname, he had inherited the presidency at the age of 19. The family and its National Unity Party, or PUN, still enjoys some support from Haitians dispirited by poverty or nostalgic for the brutally enforced law and order of their combined 29 years in power.

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In high school French, classes resumed

On the hills, the town hall, which bears on its front the motto of the Republic of Haiti, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, was abandoned because of precarious balance. Its services are transferred across in the local library. Responsible for strengthening the municipal team, one French, Richard Landry, plays a role of superintendent. His mission began well before the earthquake, in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD) and the City of Strasbourg. “It manages the emergency while reorganizing with the desire not to mortgage the future. It is not to rebuild in flood during hurricane, building with seismic standards while many residents want to relocate in a hurry, “said Richard Landry.

A jewel of private secular education in Haiti, the French school-Pommayrac Alcibiades, too, suffered. The primary school collapsed causing no casualties and the school requires the work of rehabilitation. He welcomes Creole and French soon began in kindergarten. The 750 students who pass the end of the tray Haitian Studies and French are selected on merit. Young people from disadvantaged families are privileged to the same level competitions, thanks to a grant system. “We have taken courses outside without waiting for students to pass exams at year end. We welcome others with their rotation to restore faith in the aftermath. We will rehabilitate and rebuild, “says Gerard Borne, facility director and consul of France. Carefully maintained, the gardens are planted with bougainvillea. “Our role is to give these children an education and a framework. Our park is there to show what he can do with the environment, “he said.

But, by the sea, in artists’ quarter, the mood is sullen. The workshops of painters and craftsmen are closed. There will be no carnival in Jacmel this year. The designers still continue to make street costumes and papier-mache masks. One complete uniform of a Devil and winged boots. It will not scroll band this year.

This is the second trip abroad since Mr. Preval the earthquake of January 12, after the Dominican Republic, Haiti’s neighbor.

At the summit of UNASUR, Mr. Préval must expose “the needs and priorities of Haiti” after the quake, according to a statement from the presidency of Haiti.

Before flying to the summit, the president of Haiti has appealed to the people of his country calling again his patience in awaiting the delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected people.

“Today, with the road and telephone communications have been restored with the efforts of organizations, there is more coordination in aid,” said Mr. Préval.

However, he felt it was better to do, especially in terms of quantity, to meet people who are street homeless.

“The rainy season looks and we must strive to meet particularly those in the street,” he said.

Mr Preval had also called his countrymen to stand together to build another decentralized country, developing economies in the province.

“People of Haiti, the situation is not easy for you, it is not the government working in difficult conditions, put our forces together (…) to rebuild another Haiti. Haiti will not die not, “he said. Mr. Preval will return today, said his private secretary.

“In discipline, in solidarity, in the patience that we will find the solution to all problems facing us,” said René Préval during a press conference in the police station transformed into headquarters of the government.

Highly criticized by the victims who feel that the Haitian government does not help them, said he understood the “frustration” of its citizens facing delays distributions. “The situation was already difficult before the earthquake, it became even more difficult.

Recalling that a million Haitians were left homeless since the quake and 200,000 tents were needed for housing, he said that ” however, help arrived and as and extent we installed people in shelters. He called for “solidarity in peace (…) not to complicate an already tense situation, already difficult for the people.”

As a sign of frustration for the lack of tents for earthquake victims and survivors, Haiti President Rene Preval is moving into a tent office offered by the United Nations, according to a MiamiHerald report. The tent office will be placed on the grounds of the collapsed National Palace. President Preval also complained of inadequate office space and said the move is to show “solidarity with the people.”