Matternet Building Quadcopter Drone Network To Transport Supplies | Singularity Hub
http://singularityhub.com/2013/05/21/matternet-building-quadcopter-drone-network-to-transport-supplies-in
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réseaux autonomes de #drones (y compris sur le plan énergétique) permettant d’assurer le #transport de matériels en absence de routes
à noter : #Haïti sert encore une fois de lieu pour l’expérimentation de « solutions geek »
Oui, Haïti est de notoriété publique le pays où les lobbies libéraux vont montrer les merveilles que ce de donnerait la levée de telle ou telle interdiction au US :
Commercial drone use is currently illegal in the US. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is required to establish the ground rules and open the skies to commercial drones by 2015. The topic is now and will likely continue to be a touchy subject.
Santana thinks it’s important to tell folks, especially in the US where drones have a negative image, about the potential good robotic aircraft can do. “You can use drones for filming, for agriculture, for protecting animals from illegal hunting, for transportation.” But it’s also imperative to write good regulations, establishing what you can and can’t do with drones.
Outside the US, it’s a little easier and leaders are more open to the idea. Santana says in places like the Dominican Republic they are leading the conversation. “The people who most understand this technology are the people who most need it.”
Les victimes du #choléra en #Haïti menacent de traîner l’#ONU en justice
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/05/09/les-victimes-du-cholera-en-haiti-menace-de-trainer-l-onu-en-justice_3173956_
Les victimes de l’épidémie de choléra qui sévit en Haïti depuis plus de deux ans, et attribuée par certains experts à des casques bleus, ont donné mercredi 8 mai soixante jours aux Nations unies pour obtenir un accord d’indemnisation, sous peine de procès. Au total plus de 650 000 personnes ont été touchées et 8 100 personnes sont mortes depuis octobre 2010.
L’Institut pour la justice et la démocratie en Haïti (IJDH), basé aux Etats-Unis, affirme représenter à présent plus de 8 000 victimes et familles de victimes. Son directeur, Brian Concannon, précise que la plainte intentée à l’ONU pourrait être déposée à New York et éventuellement en Europe. En cas de procès, l’IJDH demanderait des milliards de dollars de compensations : 100 000 dollars pour chaque mort, et 50 000 dollars pour chaque personne infectée par l’épidémie. « Nous attendons une réponse rapide et adéquate de l’ONU. Immunité ne veut pas dire impunité », a ajouté M. Concannon.
Les 700.000€ de frais captés par Unicef Belgique sur les dons Haïti » Apache
Les 700.000€ de frais captés par Unicef Belgique sur les dons Haïti
28 mars 2013 Réagir
Poursuivant notre enquête sur les résultats du Consortium 1212, qui a récolté plus de 20 millions d’euros auprès des citoyens belges suite au tremblement de terre à Haïti, nous nous intéressons aujourd’hui à un de ses membres particuliers : l’Unicef. Une ONG qui a capté près d’un euro sur deux récoltés par le Consortium 1212.
Tremblement de terre en Haïti : les 20 millions d’euros d’aide humanitaire belge arrivés à bon Port ? »
via Olivier Bailly
Tremblement de terre en Haïti : les 20 millions d’euros d’aide humanitaire belge arrivés à bon Port ?
27 mars 2013 Réagir
Le 12 janvier 2010, tremblement de terre à Port-au-Prince. Le lendemain, le gouvernement belge envoie une équipe de B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team). Ce fut le premier acte de solidarité d’une longue liste.
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Un village de tentes au milieu de ruines causées par le tremblement de terre, Haïti (Photo : United Nations Development Programme/ Janvier 2010/ Flickr-CC)
Trois mois plus tard, le secrétaire d’Etat à la Coopération au développement de l’époque (Charles Michel) annonce lors de la conférence des donateurs à l’ONU une contribution belge de 20 millions d’euros, portant sur trois ans. A la même époque, du côté des ONG, les appels aux dons se multiplient : les urgentistes annoncent l’envoi rapide de l’aide de première ligne. MSF, Croix Rouge et le Consortium 1212 sont aux premières loges.
#haiti #humanitaire #aide
Mapping the spread of cholera to aid the MSF response in Haiti | The Chariot – LSHTM News
https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/news/2013/03/19/mapping-the-spread-of-cholera-to-aid-the-msf-response-in-haiti
With over 200,000 cholera patients in three months, the country’s health system was utterly overwhelmed. International agencies’ capacity was stretched to the limit, and one of the challenges was rational deployment of resources. Mapping tools were utilised to convert patient registers into animated maps in Google Earth® with dots sized according to daily numbers of cases from each neighbourhood. Water point mapping was performed with graduated colours corresponding to chlorination levels.
http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/news/files/2013/03/Haiti-Cholera-Map2.gif
As John Snow demonstrated in London in 1854, a spatiotemporal correlation between water system breakdowns and increased cholera cases was demonstrated in Carrefour, Haiti. This was successfully used to advocate for improved water system maintenance. Cholera hotspots were easily visualised, as were incidence trends in neighbourhoods. However earlier and more widespread implementation of such mapping analysis might have led to an improved medical response through targeted outreach, water chlorination and timelier advocacy.
#cartographie #santé #choléra #eau #haiti
#Haiti: How #cholera turned shit into gold
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2013/03/haiti-how-cholera-turned-shit-into-gold.html
From the point of view of the UN and the NGOs, Nepali cholera has been a blessing in disguise: At the cost of 650,000 cases and 8,000 dead Haitians, cholera has turned shit into gold—at least for the UN and the NGOs.
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#nations-unies #santé #ong
#Haiti recycles human waste in fight against #cholera epidemic | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/10/haiti-human-waste-recycle-cholera
Every week, Soil (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) collects the human waste from 56 dry toilets built in camps for displaced earthquake victims, and mixes it with chips of sugar cane bagasse, a byproduct of local rum production.
“It’s plenty hot,” said Kramer, pointing to the thermometer needle at 60C (140F). “Cholera would be dead in less than a second.”
“If we can take all the poop that’s making people sick right now," said Dr Sasha Kramer as she stuck a thermometer into a large mound of faecal waste in the middle of Troutier, Port-au-Prince’s city dump, “and turn it into this really valuable resource that could be used for reforestation or for increased agricultural production, then you really take a problem and turn it into a solution.”
Pendant que certains s’écharpent sous le feu des projecteurs pour faire vendre leurs médiocres albums (Booba vs. La Fouine, etc.), d’autres, comme Kery James, mettent leur musique et leur nom au service d’une noble cause : la solidarité.
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Si tu pleures, pleure des larmes de détermination
http://touslesgoutssontdanslaculture.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/si-tu-pleures-pleure-des-larmes-de-determination
Kery James mène les mêmes combats depuis longtemps : les inégalités sociales, l’islamophobie, la Palestine, les injustices. Des textes pédagogiques qui touchent un public large. Kery James c’est un militant, un poète qui utilise le rap pour faire passer ses idées. Un charisme, un rôle de grand frère du rap français. Il a ouvert la voie à d’autres : Youssoupha, Médine, etc…
Les textes de Kery James méritent d’être écoutés avec autant d’attention qu’on lit un poème d’Aragon. Ce n’est pas une musique que l’on met en fond en regardant la télé en même temps qu’on envoie des textos. Non, ça demande du temps, de la concentration. Car Kery James nous raconte une histoire compliquée, nuancée. J’aime aussi Kery James car il parle des injustices sans jamais verser dans l’exagération, la naïveté ou la facilité. Il valorise le travail, l’éducation, la détermination. Des valeurs absentes dans un monde dirigé par l’argent.
UN decision to claim diplomatic immunity for #cholera outbreak in #Haiti was cold, but correct - Juliette Kayyem - The Boston Globe
http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2013/02/28/decision-claim-diplomatic-immunity-for-cholera-outbreak-haiti-was-cold-but-correct/MxeER5UM6aWzZB2WNJtjgI/story.html
There are two sides to globalization. The bad side, as is evident in Haiti, is that once-isolated microbes can kill victims across the globe, especially in places where sanitation and clean water are lacking. The beneficial side is that when a nation needs the global community to respond after a horrible earthquake, public safety resources and medical expertise are available.
rare papier en faveur de l’immunité des #Nations_unies
Haiti: fight against cholera continues, but claims against UN ‘not receivable’
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44197
In November 2011, a claim for compensation was brought against the UN on behalf of victims of the cholera outbreak in Haiti.
“Today, the United Nations advised the claimants’ representatives that the claims are not receivable pursuant to Section 29 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations,”
#choléra #haïti #santé #nations-unies #circulez-y-a-rien-à-voir
L’ONU rejette les demandes d’indemnisation pour l’épidémie de choléra en Haïti- http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/02/22/l-onu-rejette-les-demandes-d-indemnisation-pour-l-epidemie-de-cholera-en-hai
The Uses of Paul Farmer » Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/17/the-uses-of-paul-farmer
(Pour ce critique, Paul Farmer se serait rapproché des Clinton et se serait par conséquent ramolli.)
Farmer had always been a sharp critic of the international community’s treatment of #Haiti.
Eventually I asked him a blunt question: “Do you think the administration here was under pressure from international forces to fight the increase in the minimum wage?”
(...) Farmer stammered a little bit, said he didn’t know, and subtly changed the subject.
One reader left an ominous comment on the interview. “No disrespect to Dr. Farmer, as I believe he is sincere,” he wrote, “but he is now a part of the ‘machine’ that essentially drives Haiti.”
*
Two years later, WikiLeaks provided me and two colleagues with a window into that machine: 1,918 secret diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Haiti.
The cables proved beyond any doubt what had seemed obvious. Behind the scenes, American officials had mounted a full-scale assault on the minimum wage increase, financing studies against it and pressuring the president to oppose it.
If Farmer had “engaged in the hard process of discernment” – an idea he promotes in his book Haiti After the Earthquake – the answer to my question would have been “Yes, of course.”
It was strange. In the past, Farmer wrote disapprovingly of plans to give Haitians low-paying jobs in textile factories – what many consider to be sweatshops. Either he had changed his mind or was holding his tongue.
La #migration des #murs, de James Noël
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/patrice-beray/130113/la-migration-des-murs-de-james-noel
Actuellement en résidence à la villa Médicis à Rome, le poète haïtien est en train de préparer un livre encore inédit qu’il annonce comme un pamphlet poétique, La Migration des murs.
Il nous en adresse de larges extraits en mémoire des ravages du séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti, mais cette fois-ci en une invitation universelle à faire table rase de tous les murs qui font ruines du monde.
Extrait
Les murs n’ont pas de morale Ils ont bâti un système fixe et à la base totalitaire, histoire de faire une entrée fracassante dans l’humanité en bloc, toutes géographies confondues, séparées en groupe d’îles ou en ramassis incontinent d’archipels En long et en large, les murs n’ont pas de morale
I muri non hanno morale Hanno eretto un sistema immutabile a base totalitaria, storia del fare un’entrata dirompente nell’umanità in blocco, confuse tutte le geografie, separate in gruppi di isole o in un’accozzaglia incontinente d’arcipelaghi. In lungo e in largo, i muri non hanno morale
Solide absence de liens, solide absence de ciment social des espèces et des espaces Fortement critique le cas clinique du monde au pied du mur De ce côté dur de la réalité des murs, c’est à la base la vie qui en sort écrasée
Solida assenza di legami, solida assenza di cemento sociale di specie e spazi Decisamente critico il caso clinico del mondo ai piedi del muro Da questo lato duro della realtà dei muri, alle fondamenta è la vita a uscirne schiacciata
Abordons le chapitre du monde, en gros, ce n’est qu’une histoire de murs
Affrontiamo il capitolo del mondo, all’ingrosso, non è che una storia di muri
Qui a dit que l’équerre était l’enfance des instruments Un instrument marqué à ce point au millimètre, saurait-il avoir une enfance
Chi ha detto che la squadra è l’infanzia degli strumenti Uno strumento segnato a tal punto al millimetro, saprebbe avere un’infanzia
Viendra un jour un peuple de maçons de dernière heure qui se retournera d’un seul bond, en reptilien boumerang contre les murs Un peuple de maçons, comme nouvelle cheville-ouvrière de la destruction des murs
Verrà un giorno un popolo di muratori dell’ultima ora che si rivolterà in uno scatto, in serpentineo boomerang contro i muri Un popolo di muratori, come nuovo perno della distruzione dei muri
Un peuple de maçons parachutés des grues en rut, pour mettre fin aux impasses improvisées des murs Un peuple de maçons pour en finir avec la provision de toutes ces mains qui dressent les murs comme des chiens-policiers, dressés avec des barbelés autour du cou
Subsidizing Starvation - By Maura R. O’Connor | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/11/subsidizing_starvation?page=0,0
Perhaps the most devastating example of this trade distortion, critics say, is Haiti. Since 1995, when it dropped its import tariffs on rice from 50 to 3 percent as part of a structural adjustment program run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, Haiti has steadily increased its imports of rice from the north. Today it is the fifth-largest importer of American rice in the world despite having a population of just 10 million. Much of Haiti’s rice comes from Arkansas; each year, Riceland Foods and Producers Rice Mill send millions of tons of rice down the Mississippi river on barges to New Orleans, where the rice is loaded onto container ships, taken to port in Haiti, and packaged as popular brands such as Tchaco or Mega Rice. Haiti today imports over 80 percent of its rice from the United States, making it a critical market for farmers in Arkansas.
Development experts argue that while U.S. exports may feed people cheaply in the short run, they have exacerbated poverty and food insecurity over time, and subsidies are largely to blame. “The support that U.S. rice producers receive is a big factor in why they are a big player in the global rice market and the leading source of imported rice in Haiti,” said Marc Cohen, a senior researcher on humanitarian policy and climate change at Oxfam America. “If governments that preached trade liberalization in Geneva would practice it — and that includes reducing domestic support measures that affect trade — if everything was on a level playing field, that would be very helpful to Haiti.”
“You have a country which is 70 percent farmers and you’re importing 60 to 70 percent of your food,” added Regine Barjon, the marketing director of the Miami-based Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce, in reference to Haiti.
#agrobusiness #subventions #faim #alimentation #Haïti #Etats-unis #capitalisme #riz
Ushahidi en Haïti : les leçons à tirer de la cartographie de crise | YOUPHIL
cc @fil
http://www.youphil.com/fr/article/05744-ushahidi-haiti-cartographie-crise-seisme?ypcli=ano
Françoise de Blomac (Revue humanitaire) 10/01/2013
Rédactrice en chef de SIG La Lettre, une publication mensuelle sur l’information géographique, revient sur l’évaluation de la cartographie Ushahidi, créée pour aider les secours lors du séisme à Haïti en 2010.
Ushahidi en Haïti : les leçons à tirer de la cartographie de crise
Quelques heures après le séisme du 12 janvier 2010 à Haïti, le projet Ushahidi (« témoignage » en Swahili) a été mis en place. Cette cartographie internet a rassemblé et géocodé entre 40.000 et 60.000 messages.
Au-delà de ce succès, Ushahidi a provoqué un véritable « changement de paradigme » en donnant enfin ses lettres de noblesse au « crowdsourcing » dans le domaine de la cartographie de crise.
#haïti #cartographie-humanitaire #cartographie -de-crise #désastre-naturel
#Haiti: More Pressure Needed to Get Clean Water
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/186-haiti/52149-haiti-more-pressure-needed-to-get-clean-water.html
Haiti is vulnerable to water-borne diseases like cholera because of its lack of clean water and sanitation.
More than two years and nearly 7,800 deaths after UN troops brought the dread disease of cholera to Haiti, a plan has finally been put forward to do something to get rid of it. While we are still a long way from implementation, there are important lessons to be learned from this experience.
Perhaps most importantly, it shows that organised political pressure can work. There have been protests from many thousands of Haitians, and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti went to the UN to file for damages and reparations. Many other groups and individuals kept the issue in the news and wouldn’t let it go away, as much as the UN and powerful governments wanted it to disappear.
Newspaper editorial boards such as those of the New York Times and the Boston Globe called on the UN to take responsibility for the disaster that it caused. As a result of grassroots organising, the majority of Democrats in the US House of Representatives signed a letter to the same effect.
Still, the UN has continued to deny its responsibility despite conclusive scientific and forensic evidence that its troops had brought the disease from South Asia, and transmitted it by dumping human waste into a tributary of Haiti’s main water supply. This was gross negligence of the highest order.
Renowned US doctor appointed to support UN efforts to eliminate cholera in Haiti
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43853&Cr=haiti&Cr1=cholera
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed renowned United States physician Paul Farmer to help galvanize support to eliminate cholera in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed over 7,750 lives.
#nations_unies #un #haiti #cholera #santé
In Aiding Quake-Battered Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths - NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/world/americas/in-aiding-quake-battered-haiti-lofty-hopes-and-hard-truths.html?smid=tw-sha
the numbers tell the story: Donors provided $2.2 billion of humanitarian aid in response to the earthquake. The United States Department of Defense got nearly a fifth of that aid to carry out its relief operation, which involved 22,000 troops. The Haitian government got less than 1 percent.
via @IrèneBonnaud qui twitte:
Reportage à #Haïti 3 ans après le #tremblement_de_terre. #Néo-colonialisme #humanitaire et toujours pas de reconstruction.
UN Gives Journalism Prize to Investigation Exposing UN Responsibility for Cholera – And Still Won’t Accept Responsibility | Relief and Reconstruction Watch
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/un-gives-journalism-prize-to-investigation-exposing-un-responsibility-for-chol
Tonight, in a ceremony presided over by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, BBC correspondent Mark Doyle and producer Piers Scholfield will be presented with an award from the U.N. Correspondents Association (UNCA). The award, one of many to be handed out, is described by the UNCA as being for “the best coverage of the United Nations and its agencies.” Certainly by “best” they do not mean the most flattering. The BBC radio documentary that earned Scholfield and Doyle the prize was an investigation into the source of the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which over the past two years has killed over 7,800 and sickened over 625,000. A host of scientific evidence, as well as on the ground reporting, including by Doyle and Scholfield, has pinpointed a U.N. military base as the source of the outbreak.
(...) Yet despite the U.N.’s pledge to support this plan, the U.N. has failed to ever accept responsibility for the epidemic.
#haïti #choléra #nations_unies #UN
Unease over #UN bid to eradicate #Haiti #cholera - Al Jazeera Blogs
http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/americas/unease-over-un-bid-eradicate-haiti-cholera
The UN has launched a new initiative aimed at tackling cholera in Haiti. But the programme falls short of what many had hoped for.
The new programme dedicates $215m from donors along with $23.5m from UN funds towards programmes in public health, capacity building, public education, and clean water systems. It will be part of a larger ten-year $2.2bn programme between Haiti and the neighbouring Dominican Republic to eradicate cholera from the island of Hispaniola.
“We know the elimination of cholera is possible,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
(...)
some UN observers fear that the plan will deflect international pressure on the UN to take responsibility for introducing the deadly disease.
Numerous studies - including internal investigations by the UN itself - indicate that cholera was brought in by Nepalese peacekeeping troops. Yet the international body has yet to formally take the blame.
“A just response requires allowing past victims of the UN cholera and their survivors their day in court, to seek justice for their loss of loved ones, income, property and educational opportunities,” said Brian Concannon, Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, which has launched a lawsuit against the UN on behalf of the families of 5,000 cholera victims.
More than 6,700 people have signed an online petition launched last week by filmmaker Oliver Stone, calling for the UN to take responsibility.
Comme il faut | Christophe Wargny
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/11/WARGNY/48365
Les (rares) libraires de Port-au-Prince le confirment : Gary Victor est l’écrivain haïtien le plus lu dans son pays, où l’on apprécie aussi le dramaturge, l’essayiste et l’animateur radio, auteur des très fameuses Chroniques d’un leader haïtien comme il faut (1999-2005), dont le héros est un (...) / #Caraïbes, #Haïti, #Culture, #Inégalités, #Jeunes, #Littérature, Pauvreté, #Violence - 2012/11
#Haïti : recrudescence du #choléra après le passage de Sandy
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2012/11/20/haiti-recrudescence-du-cholera-apres-le-passage-de-sandy_1793033_3222.html
Quarante-quatre décès dus au choléra ont été enregistrés ces derniers jours en Haïti moins d’un mois après le passage de l’ouragan Sandy, qui a entraîné une recrudescence de la maladie, a annoncé lundi le ministère de la santé publique haïtien. Plus de 5 000 personnes ont été traitées pour des affections liées au choléra, selon les statistiques fournies par le ministère.
The United Nations must cure #Haiti of the #cholera epidemic it caused | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/12/united-nations-haiti-cholera-epidemic
Unlike earthquake or hurricane, Haiti’s cholera outbreak is a manmade disaster – by the very agency supposed to protect it
Mark Weisbrot - guardian.co.uk
More than 7,600 Haitians have died of cholera, which numerous scientific studies have shown was caused by UN troops contaminating the water supply with human waste. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Selon l’ONU, 1,8 million d’Haïtiens ont été touchés par l’ouragan #Sandy
http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsID=29280&Cr=sandy&Cr1=
Le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires des Nations Unies (OCHA) a annoncé vendredi que l’insécurité alimentaire en Haïti était préoccupante au lendemain du passage dévastateur de l’ouragan Sandy, qui a plongé dans la détresse près de 1,8 million de personnes dans ce pays.
Selon l’OCHA, 60 personnes ont été tuées par l’ouragan qui a ravagé les Caraïbes avant d’arriver sur la côte est des États-Unis. De nombreuse infrastructures ont également été détruites ou endommagées en #Haïti, dont des hôpitaux, des écoles, des routes, ainsi que des milliers de foyers.
#Haiti #cholera epidemic ’most likely’ started at #UN camp - top scientist | BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20024400
The new evidence could have serious implications for the UN, which is facing an unprecedented legal and moral challenge in Haiti - as well as a multi-billion dollar compensation claim from victims’ families.
More than 7,500 people have died from the cholera epidemic in Haiti since it started in late 2010. Hundreds of new cases are still being registered every week.
(...)
After studying molecular data known as full genome sequencing on the strain of cholera found in Haiti - and that prevalent in Nepal in 2010 - Dr Lantagne said: “We now know that the strain of cholera in Haiti is an exact match for the strain of cholera in Nepal.”
(...)
The 2011 UN report - co-signed by her - acknowledged that inadequate toilets in the Nepalese UN camp in the mountain town of Mirabalais could have leaked the cholera bacterium into the nearby Meye River which flows into the country’s main waterways.
But the report stressed that the outbreak “was not the fault” of any “group or individual”.
(...)
Now, Dr Lantagne says the new genome data (in addition to other evidence) has changed her view since she had co-authored the UN report which effectively said no-one was to blame.
Fidel Castro says UN should pay Haitians for cholera - The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Fidel-Castro-says-UN-should-pay-Haitians-for-cholera/articleshow/16942473.cms
Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Wednesday sided with Haitians seeking reimbursement from the United Nations after a 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, saying it would be “fair.”
"The United Nations is aware it has the responsibility to pay $100,000 to every one of the Haitian victims of the cholera epidemic that has caused the death of more than 7,000 people in Haiti
Manger de la boue - A State of Denial - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
http://www.pjstar.com/haiti_ugc_blog/x1708948256/A-State-of-Denial
In 2007 I posted that people in Soleil were so hungry they were eating mud.
As people found out about this atrocity I think they were in disbelief. One commenter wrote that maybe the lady who makes the mudpies in Soleil should “turn into a Mrs. Fields and export her mudpies to the States”.
In 2012 people in Soleil are still eating mudpies.
(...)
Denial is good for us when it comes to thinking about this. It could not be happening we tell ourselves. This can’t be happening 90 minutes from Miami.
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