December 24, 2012
Categories: Foreign Policy, Infrastructure, Natural Disaster, Sovereignty, Water
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Nearly three years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, uncleared rubble and ruined buildings remain in downtown Port-au-Prince. Vegetable vendors worked amid the debris.
December 24, 2012
Categories: History, Infrastructure, Natural Disaster, Recipients, Sovereignty
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In Aiding Quake-Battered Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths – NYTimes.com. The New York Times shows that such post-disaster idealism came to be undercut by the enormousness of the task, the weakness and volatility of the Haitian government, the continuation of aid business as usual and the limited effectiveness of the now-defunct recovery commission that […]
November 25, 2012
Categories: Farming, Foreign Policy, History, Natural Disaster
Tags: farming
Poor Haitian Farmers Are Left Hopeless After Storm – NYTimes.com. Already Desperate, Haitian Farmers Are Left Hopeless After Storm By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDNOV. 17, 2012 FAUCHÉ, Haiti — A woman who lost just about everything now gives her children coffee for meals because it quiets their stomachs a bit. Another despondent mother relives the awful […]
November 25, 2012
Categories: Medicine and Health, Natural Disaster
Tags: hurricane Sandy, natural disaster
Haiti faces hunger catastrophe after hurricane Sandy destroys harvests | Global development | guardian.co.uk. Although Haiti was not directly in Sandy’s path, the storm last month triggered heavy rains and severe flooding in the west and the south. Rivers which flooded during the storm washed away topsoil, fruit trees and cultures. Eroded banks gave way […]
February 5, 2011
Categories: Access, Economy, Natural Disaster
Tags: 2010 earthquake, immigration, Miami
New Influx of Haitians, but Not Who Was Expected – NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/education/16winerip.html?_r=0 Miami JAN. 15, 2011 Last year after the earthquake in Haiti, Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Miami-Dade schools — the fourth-biggest district in the nation, with 345,000 students — expected to enroll thousands and thousands of survivors arriving from the devastated country. He […]