November 24, 2010
Categories: Medicine and Health, United Nations
Tags: cholera, Port Au Prince, United Nations
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Protesters throwing rocks and bottles lashed out against the Haitian government and United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti’s second largest city Monday, venting fear and anger over a cholera epidemic that many Haitians believe came from foreigners. The national police and U.N. forces used tear-gas to disperse hundreds of angry demonstrators who tried …
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November 24, 2010
Tags: tourism
Rory Carroll: Save Haiti from aid tourists: There was so much goodness packed on to the plane there was almost no room for me. I had a boarding pass but by the time I got to the gate every seat was filled. This was American Airlines flight 575 from Miami to Port-au-Prince and the passengers …
November 24, 2010
Categories: Elections, Medicine and Health
Tags: 2010 elections, cholera, Port Au Prince
Four candidates call for poll delay in cholera-hit Haiti: November 21, 2010 Four Haitian presidential candidates have called for postponing elections set for November 28 as the country struggles with a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 1,200 lives and protests targeting UN peacekeepers. Authorities have maintained that the election will not be postponed, but …
November 24, 2010
Categories: United States
Tags: Bill Clinton, colonialism, mass media, US Imperialism
Bill Clinton: Haiti’s neocolonial overlord “Clinton has betrayed all his humanitarian promises and failed to collect even a fraction of the promised $10 billion for reconstruction.” The corporate media portrays former President Bill Clinton as a great humanitarian friend of Haiti. The truth could not be more different. He has always supported policies in the …
November 24, 2010
Categories: NGOs
Tags: orphans, Saint-Louis du Nord, Uncategorized, Yvette Cabrera
Yvette Cabrera: Fullerton woman helps Haiti’s neediest orphans: The town of Saint-Louis du Nord in Northwest Haiti isn’t the easiest place to get to. My journey there, from Port-au-Prince, included a 45-minute flight on a tiny plane, a landing on a dirt air strip shared by produce-toting donkeys, and an eight-mile, 50-plus minute truck ride. …
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