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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian President Rene Preval declared a "war without end" against corruption Friday, calling crooked state officials traitors who rob the deeply impoverished nation of vital investment and jobs.
"The fight for equality requires the government to have money without having to ask for it. For the government to have money, people have to stop stealing from the state," the left-leading Preval said during a Haitian Flag Day speech at the National Palace.
Laying out a major initiative of his year-old government, Preval vowed to root out corrupt police, customs agents, judges and legislators, whom he accused of enriching themselves at the expense of the aid-dependent Caribbean nation, which is struggling to return to stability following a crippling 2004 revolt.
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