An Urgent Call for Action addressed to the Great Solidarity Will and Business Vision of The People of China

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

March, 27, 2010

Honorable Businessmen, Businesswomen, Authorities, and People of China.

Your greatness and wisdom is as great as the size of your Country, the greatness of your heart, the timeless legacy of your enchanted culture, the number of your peoples, the magnitude of your economy, and the strength of your resilience.

Getting to the point, you are so brilliant that you became “rainmakers”.

And now, a brother Country, an example of resilience as you are, is desperately in need of this unique capability you have.

I am not talking about magic skills, but about pure high tech technology.

This is all about the Cloud Seeding technique in which you are the masters in the world.

I had been noticed, by the way, even about some fun tales reporting on provinces complaining about other provinces “stealing” their rains.

This is the core idea. In some way, in the contrary objective as it is used.

I am far from being an expert in the issue and maybe I am saying complete stupid things for what I since and right now apologize. But the cause is worthy seeming myself stupid or crazy.

I can also imagine that it is a very expensive enterprise but I am sure that it can compensate even under a business perspective as I will explain below.

The idea is to monitor, evaluate and “steal” the rains before they fall over the Port-au-Prince area.

The idea is “attacking” the clouds to make the rain fall in not so populated areas, or where people are better abridged, or over the sea, or at least to make fall part of the rains before the camps areas.

We are really proud to be together there, Brazil and China, in the MINUSTAH peacekeeping UN Mission.

We know, also, being so far as you are, that China was one of the first Countries to arrive in Haiti and with a really heavy aid.

Western media didn’t show it as usual, as didn’t show also the invaluable help of Cuba and Venezuela for instance.

But at in some channels as Democracy Now (an independent US Web Channel) and Al Jazeera I could see the infinite to the horizon line of red packages of supplies with the yellow star by the Port-au-Prince airport.

But the rains season is coming and we have 300,000 people unabridged and 1,300,000 people abridged improperly in improvised tent camps.

As the heavy rains come we will lose certainly at least 25% of them, after losing more than 250,00 people by the Jan 12^th earthquake.

It is too heavy for a solely and yet suffered Country.

It is too much for the Human Kind!

Just now, while I am writing, a gadget of the Weather Channel noticed me that is raining there. I really want to do something…

The rains season there are heavy and they mean much more than wet bodies in areas with no shelter, sanitation and none basic services.

They mean Malaria, TB, deadly flus and all kind of infectious diseases, infectious drawbacks in recent 200,000 amputees’ surgeries and other patients and, in summary, the total physical and psychological chaos.

Finally, they mean the unfeasibility of any of the necessary preparations for the hurricanes season that follows immediately.

We, the World, cannot let it happen!

And if this desperate insight is somehow feasible, China can save Humanity’s hope!

And yet it can be a great marketing opportunity for the technology owners within the whole western hemisphere.

As an example an can I give you the Brazilian case.

I can guarantee you the most of Brazilian Northeast agriculture business men and women have listened about it but know very little in practical terms.

Brazil is probably the richest Country of the world in water supply and one of greatest producer of food.

But as surprisingly that is seems, there is an immense region – my region – really scarce of water and starving of all manners to produce food.

This is the region also where H. E. Mr. President Lula was born and from where he had to leave exactly as a refugee of hunger, thirst, and poverty.

Billions are invested there all years.

And I am sure that a part of it can go for Cloud Seeding (after, of course, your technical evaluations about if I am not, for the first or second time, saying stupid things).

This area, the Brazilian Semi-Arid – the most impoverished region of the whole Country - is alone officially as big as 969.589,4 square kilometers, ready, waiting for agribusiness productive solutions.

Brazilian Government, as you may already know, got completely compromised with Haiti Government and People far beyond the MINUSTAH mission and far before the earthquake.

Just as an example I can put H. E. Mr. President Lula decision that no Brazilian money will go to no other hand but the Government of Haiti.

Not even to the many Brazilian NGOs operating there.

And, for the cry, complaints, and yelling of Brazilian contractors, the engineering endeavors that Brazil is beginning to build in Haiti will be exclusively done by the Brazilian Armed Forces Engineering Unities.

And he is trying to convince some other Governments to do the same.

He is saying to the contractors here that no other President before him got as much contracts for Brazilian companies.

But that the case of Haiti now is not the case for business.

Is the case for respect and solidarity.

That the empowerment of the Haitian Government, People, Independence, and Sovereignty is not a need, is an Imperative and something that we are not giving, we owe.

By other hand, Brazil is extremely focused in improving relations with China within and beyond the BRICS strategy, wanting to foster more and more China’s presence in Latin America, and Brazil have also a huge and fully integrated Chinese community.

Finally, Chinese Business would help Haiti and gain else and everywhere.

Imagine the Marketing impact of such action!

I talked about Brazilian market as an example, but we are talking about the world markets.

Again, there could not be a better marketing than – if it is technically, even if in part, feasible – helping to solve one problem of this kind and dimensions.

You can say, otherwise, that as usual the western media would not show it.

But the marketing we, ourselves, the guys with a mouse, can guarantee.

We can guarantee, the images, pictures, and so on, on the ground, during the operations.

And we can guarantee millions of messages arriving at mail boxes, and millions of phone calls arriving at phones of millions of agribusinessmen and agribusinesswomen worldwide with the powerful legitimacy, intimacy, trustworthiness and personality of the word-of-mouth, one-to-one, and friend-to-friend advertisement.

If it seems exaggerated, I just would like to remember that while there are to be a Donors Conference next week to decide the amount of money to invest in the Haiti Reconstruction Plan, and since now not more than US$ 2bn was pledged by Governments and multilateral banks and institutions, in less than one month, we the guys with a mouse, made arrive in Haiti (I repeat: we not pledged, we made arrive) more the US$ 1 billion just through very small donations via Internet and SMS messages.

By other hand, people in Kenya together with universities in US, Japan, China and elsewhere developed over Google, Yahoo, Zoho etc platforms some of the most astonishing Humanitarian Mapping Aid tools in less than 48 hours.

We are tens of thousands and growing.

The media is moving their lights.

We are not.

And we are getting more powerful and more connected with the real people of Haiti.

We together can make the difference.

And together with the great people of the great China we can make a really great difference.

Finally, if some of you did not detect that my idea is technically unfeasible I would kindly ask you to do me a favor in translating at least its essence to Mandarin and spreading the word to facilitate that it arrives in the right hands.

Once more, my deepest sincere apologies, my thanks, and my full respect and admiration.

The best wishes.

寅

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Guilherme de Alarcon Pereira
Salvador - Bahia - Brazil
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