haiti earthquake
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The Story of the Haiti’s Earthquake Camps
Haiti’s Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake – a decade ago this week — was one of history’s great natural disasters. However, it was not as great as the world’s large humanitarian relief organizations and their allied media outlets would have us believe. It became a money-making tragedy. Continue reading
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Nine Months After the Quake – A Million Haitians Slowly Dying By Bill Quigley
The Associated Press reports only 2 percent of the rubble has been removed and only 13,000 temporary shelters have been constructed. Not a single cent of the US aid pledged for rebuilding has arrived in Haiti. In the last few days the US pledged it would put up 10% of the billion dollars in reconstruction… Continue reading
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Report: Haiti Recovery 'Paralyzed'
Refugees International says agencies co-ordinating Haitian relief efforts are “dysfunctional” and “inexperienced”. Continue reading
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Child Inmates Crowded Into Haiti's Dangerous Post-Quake Prisons By Alice Speri
Suze is the youngest of 58 minors currently incarcerated in Port-au-Prince’s penitentiaries, held next to adult inmates, with no trial and in degrading conditions, Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) denounced last month. Continue reading
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Haiti's Ransom By Isabel MacDonald
It has been nearly seven months since a devastating earthquake killed upwards of 250,000 people in Haiti. But judging from recent media coverage, it would appear the country’s future hinges on just one question: “Will Wyclef be the next Haitian president?” Continue reading
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Haiti's colonial overlord By Ashley Smith
To the U.S. media, Clinton is a compassionate statesmen, with only the best interests of the Haitian people at heart. Ordinary Haitians have a different view. They remember Clinton as the man who, while president, demanded Haiti follow the ‘Plan of Death’–the neoliberal prescriptions of the IMF and World Bank that ‘structurally adjusted’ the Haitian… Continue reading
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The Haiti story you won't read By Laura Wagner
When I came back to Haiti in early April, after having been injured during the earthquake and evacuated a few days after, I was prepared to be shocked by the transformation of a city I once knew. Instead, what struck me was how quickly I adjusted to empty lots and mounds of broken-down rubble where… Continue reading
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Crossover Dreams: A guide for American journalists: How to report on Haiti when you visit again six months from now By Ansel Herz
Actor Sean Penn, who is helping manage a camp of displaced earthquake victims in Haiti, is making pointed criticisms of journalists for dropping the ball on coverage of Haiti. He’s wrong. I’ve been on the ground in Port-au-Prince working as an independent journalist for the past ten months. I’m an earthquake survivor who’s seen the… Continue reading
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Haiti: Six Months After the Earthquake…The Deadly Realities of Imperialist Aid
Six months ago, on January 12, 2010, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, an island nation of about 9 million. The quake killed at least a quarter million people, and left over 1.5 million homeless. As Revolution brought out at the time, this devastation did not result solely from a natural disaster. It was made massively… Continue reading
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Video – Six Months After the Earthquake: Deep Wounds in Haiti
Six months after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people, the dust is starting to settle over Port-au-Prince. As it does, the deep wounds that fracture this country are re-emerging, more gaping than even before. Continue reading
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Haiti: Six Months On Video Report By Al Jazeera
Six months after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people, the dust is starting to settle over Port-au-Prince. As it does, the deep wounds that fracture this country are re-emerging, more gaping than even before. One-and-a-half million people remain displaced, many living under tents and tarps. Rubble removal is slow, and rebuilding has yet… Continue reading
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Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake By Amy Goodman
July 12 marked the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake here in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people and left much of the country in ruins. Up to 1.8 million people are living in squalid tent cities, with inadequate sanitation, if any, no electricity and little security, or any respite from the intense… Continue reading
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Misery and Despair Plague Haitians By Stephen Lendman
Torrential afternoon rains leave “lake-sized puddles in which mosquitoes breed, then spread malaria. Deep, raspy coughs can be heard everywhere. Scabies and other infections transform children’s soft skin into irritating red bumpy rashes. Bellies are swelling and hair turning orange from malnutrition. Vomiting and diarrhea are as common as flies.” Continue reading
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Where Is Haiti's Bailout? By Isabel MacDonald
“Now is the time to step up our investment in Haiti,” Clinton reiterated in April at an Inter-American Development Bank meeting in Washington, D.C. Yet six months after the earthquake, the plan for a “New Future for Haiti” (a “Haitian-led” effort which is curiously being funded under World Bank oversight, through a commission whose 20… Continue reading
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Land Ownership at the Crux of Haiti's Stalled Reconstruction
Six months after the earthquake, many Haitians told us they have seen little in terms of recovery efforts despite the billions of dollars in aid pledged from around the world. At the heart of the matter is the issue of land ownership. We speak with journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté. In his latest article,… Continue reading
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In the Shadow of Ruins: Haitians Decry Conditions in Massive Tent City Across from Destroyed National Palace
Haiti is struggling to recover six months after the earthquake—one of the worst natural disasters in history. Up to 300,000 were killed, and more than 1.5 million were made homeless. We go inside the Camp de Mars tent camp across from the crushed national palace in Port-au-Prince to let the Haitians living there tell their… Continue reading
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Haiti a police state run by the US & UN | Heavy rains under tarps and tents six months later…yet billions raised and available
14 July, 2010 — HLLN Ezili Danto’s note: Many wrote to say they could not get to the last two articles posted. We’ve copied the article on the Ezili Danto blog for your convenience. Ezili Dantò – Oil Deposits in the Caribbean basin – largest deposit ever bit.ly/cWQTMP Other Recommended HLLN Links to mark the Continue reading
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Oil Deposits in the Carribean basin – largest deposit ever discovered, under some of the poorest countries
“There is ample evidence that the oil reserves under the Caribbean Basin are on the same scale as those of the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden combined, and that they contain three thousand more times natural gas than oil. Energy reserves of that magnitude will change the geopolitical balance of… Continue reading
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As "Temporary" Camps Linger, Tensions Rise with Haitian Landowners By Ansel Herz
Thousands of victims of the January earthquake in Haiti are at risk of being displaced for a second time as private landowners throughout the nation’s capital city grow impatient with makeshift tent camps on their properties. At a camp in the dirt parking lot of central Port-au- Prince’s Palais de L’Art events centre, fear and… Continue reading
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Haiti: There Is Aid, and Then There Is US Aid By Paco Arnau
Cuban health workers assisted 227,143 victims of the earthquake. The US assisted 871. Continue reading
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