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 Cholera Threatens HaitiPosted on Oct 23, 2010
A cholera outbreak that has killed about 200 people in rural Haiti is threatening to spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, potentially endangering the hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors crowded into squalid camps around the city. —JCL
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By Blackspeare, October 24, 2010 at 2:19 pm Link to this comment
Haiti is an example of an over-populated failed country pillaged from without and within——a reset is necessary for the potential creation of viable state. A major epidemic may do just that!
Report thisBy rico, suave, October 23, 2010 at 10:04 pm Link to this comment
So now the CIA is shitting in the little water Haitians have to drink? Will the US racist murderers never stop?
We knew from the gitgo that the US couldn’t be trusted to help. Where are the Cuban doctors? Where is Chavez? Where is France? St Martin? Martinique?When will Kim Jong Il send his promised aid and long range missile technology? When will black Africa step up and help their kindred spirits? Why doesn’t the Dominican Republic, only a hillside away, lend a hand?
You’re right Lafayette. Only the US and France, in all the world, can be held responsible for the continuing tragedy in Haiti.
Yet, when the US does step into situations like this, they’re branded imperialists, colonialists and hegemons.
Report thisBy Lafayette, October 23, 2010 at 9:12 pm Link to this comment
SHAMEFUL INDECENCY
This poor nation deserves all the sympathy and aid it can get.
Will it prove to be just another case of inept bureaucracy screwing up a free-lunch, as was Katrina. It certainly seems so.
What Haiti needs is decent housing and basic infrastructure repair—all of which is not Mission Impossible. And yet, after much media coverage (especially of brainless Hollywood twits arriving with Care Packages), the country continues to go to hell in a hand-basket.
Haiti is in our back yard, dammit. Are we fixating on our own relatively petty problems whilst this small nation agonizes?
Apparently yes. Shame on us, both the French and the American governments, for allowing this indecency to continue.
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