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Haiti: Garry Conille wants to inspire hope
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Dr. Garry Conille (pictured), the new Haitian Prime Minister, has been working behind the scenes to rebuild a broken, quake-ravaged nation. Now, as the man in charge of leading its next government, he wants to inspire hope.
Conille, 45, faces a tough challenge in his new role. The months of political gridlock has stalled reconstruction, delayed voting of the budget, slowed public and private investments and birth growing disillusionment among an impoverished masses desperately awaiting change. Twenty-one months after the devastating Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, Haiti remains in a humanitarian crisis with 594,811 people still living under tattered tents while a deadly cholera epidemic has left more than 6,400 dead and 455,700 infected.