{"id":4185,"date":"2020-08-19T12:14:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2020-08-19T12:14:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:14:05","slug":"when-propagandists-and-fabricators-misuse-the-name-of-a-prominent-journalist-by-raj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/?p=4185","title":{"rendered":"When \u201cpropagandists and fabricators\u201d misuse the name of a prominent journalist by RAJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAPPENINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>When \u201cpropagandists and fabricators\u201d misuse the name of a prominent journalist<\/strong> <em>by Raymond Alcide Joseph<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s unheard-of that journalists threaten to sue for defamation. Usually it\u2019s the other way around. But that\u2019s exactly what Jacqueline Charles, award-winning journalist, who has made a name for herself at the Miami Herald, threatened to do, following the misuse of her name by propagandists and fabricators apparently working for the Haitian government.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet Sunday evening, August 16, written in French, Jacqueline Charles asserts that she notices that \u201cthe fabrication and propaganda machine is working overtime in Haiti at this very moment, using my name [and] that of the Miami Herald to spread lies. In the United States, we take defamation seriously! Be forewarned!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlike Ms. Charles to go on the warpath in such a manner. So, we contacted her to know, first, the authenticity of the tweet, which she confirmed. And what prompted it, which she explained. It has to do with a purported arrest of Dimitri Vorbe in Florida, driving under the influence of alcohol. In the statement circulating on social networks, Ms. Charles is said to have confirmed the information, something she totally refutes, adding that \u201cthis didn\u2019t even happen.\u201d We said, \u201cNot true that Mr. Vorbe was arrested?\u201d \u201cAll fabricated,\u201d she snapped, \u201cincluding that I confirmed it. Not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that President Jovenel Mo\u00efse, who singlehandedly broke a government contract with private electricity provider SOGENER, of which Mr. Vorbe is the CEO, has accused the company of overbilling the State and of providing mostly \u201cblackouts.\u201d Refuted in his denunciations based on no evidence, President Mo\u00efse began a political persecution against Mr. Vorbe and others connected to his company, leading, last week, to an international arrest warrant with flimsy arguments issued by the Haitian officials for Mr. Vorbe. Meanwhile, Mr. Vorbe has taken refuge abroad.<\/p>\n<p>For the edification of all, we are translating the full text of the 10-paragraph smearing piece put out by the \u201cfabrication and propaganda machine\u201d denounced by the journalist whose furious outburst is better understood when the full text is read. It\u2019s unbelievable to see the extent to which the fabricators have gone to prove a non-arrest, while at the same time sullying the image of a man being persecuted by the Haitian president who\u2019s on a mission of character assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Under the name of an unknown Perard Gasner, the piece is entitled: <strong>\u201cDimitri Vorbe, arrested, driving while drunk, has caused his situation to become more complicated<\/strong>.\u201d To give credence to the \u201creportage,\u201d at the outset, it is stated: \u201c<strong>The information was noted and confirmed by Jacqueline Charles of the Mia mi Herald.\u201d (bold ours.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here it is: \u201cDimitri Vorbe, the businessman of SOGENER, was arrested during the night [no date given] in Miami (southeast Florida) -sic- for driving dangerously at the wheel of a rented Jaguar car in the streets of Miami, visibly under the influence of alcohol, according to the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow far will Dimitri Vorbe go? He who, for some time now, has been in trouble with justice wherever he finds himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe authorities have declared that Dimitri Vorbe had drunk strong alcoholic beverages commonly called \u2018Kafanyyambio,\u2019 and \u2018Vodka.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [latest] incident is in addition to recent entanglements of Dimitri Vorbe with Haitian Justice which has issued an arrest warrant against him for false documentation and overbilling, also for being involved in a criminal cons piracy, with his home being searched last week by the Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Miami Police had even twitted a photo of the arrest of the businessman Dimitri Vorbe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the benefit of the readers who may not know what DUI entails, this Perard Gasner provides some pertinent information: \u201cIt is forbidden to drink one drop of alcohol if you\u2019re driving in the USA, in 49 of the 50 states. In Florida, it is a Zero Tolerance law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlcohol and the steering wheel in the United States is a subject matter that is taken very seriously. The DUI (Driving Under the Influence) [which] means driving while drunk and\/or under the influence of drug causes 30 deaths each day due to someone driving while drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, our fake reporter makes sure that his readers are fully aware of what may be in store for Dimitri Vorbe. Read on: \u201cAll the states in the United States have reached consensus to define the level of alcohol maximum to be 0.08%. The \u2018BAC,\u2019 \u2018Blood Alcohol Content\u2019 refers in that case to the percentage of alcohol in the blood: 0,08% means that a person has 8g [grams] of alcohol in 10L [litters] of blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the conclusion: \u201cAn affair with updates to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Haitian government must have a unit dedicated only to doing \u201cresearch\u201d and putting out \u201cfake\u201d reporting, attributed to impeccable sources, hoping that their falsehood would have reached the ends of the earth by the time it is discovered. But Jacqueline Charles, on her toes all the time when it comes to issues having to do with Haiti, quickly discovered the dishonest use of her name and that of the publication for which she writes, and quickly warned he \u201cfabricators and propagandists\u201d that they are opening themselves to lawsuits for defamation, not a joke in the United States. I would suppose that the hunt is on to unmask the fakers.<\/p>\n<p>RAJ August 19, 2020 raljo31@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Cet article est publi\u00e9 par l\u2019hebdomadaire Ha\u00efti-Observateur <strong>VOL. <\/strong><strong>L No. 32<\/strong> (New York), de l\u2019\u00e9dition du 19 ao\u00fbt 2020 et se trouve en <strong>P. 1, 7 \u00e0<\/strong>\u00a0: <a href=\"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/H-O-19-aout-2020.pdf\">http:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/H-O-19-aout-2020.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPENINGS When \u201cpropagandists and fabricators\u201d misuse the name of a prominent journalist by Raymond Alcide Joseph It\u2019s unheard-of that journalists threaten to sue for defamation. Usually it\u2019s the other way around. But that\u2019s exactly what Jacqueline Charles, award-winning journalist, who has made a name for herself at the Miami Herald, threatened to do, following the misuse of her name by propagandists and fabricators apparently working for the Haitian government. In a tweet Sunday evening, August 16, written in French, Jacqueline Charles asserts that she notices that \u201cthe fabrication and propaganda&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,20,33,36],"tags":[403,3956,3957,601,1007,2909,1331,3955,1355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}