Haiti: List of Book Reviews
Alex Lizzappi’s insight: These are mainly by Bob Corbett but other reviewers are identified at the beginning of reviews.
Haiti
Four years after the Haiti earthquake, what have billions in US aid bought?
See on Scoop.it – 501c3 The United States spent $2.8 billion to help Haiti rebuild, but the results have been a disaster of a different kind. See on www.globalpost.com
US food aid program is starving Haiti’s farmers
See on Scoop.it – 501c3 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The idea that the delivery of American food aid needs an overhaul goes almost without question here in the capital of a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake of four years ago. Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: The turning point in the debate over U.S. food aid …
Haiti’s leading candidate speaks against council
Haiti’s leading candidate speaks against council: “Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial results put him third. The No. 2 finisher urged his partisans to mobilize and his staff warned they could start a war.”
Georgianne Nienaber: New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and “Squatters” Vulnerable
Georgianne Nienaber: New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and “Squatters” Vulnerable: “ While all eyes were on Sarah Palin’s visit to Haiti this weekend, Dr. Jocelyne Pierre Louis, Director of Haiti’s Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP) predicted a new outbreak of the cholera epidemic, particularly in Port-au-Prince and the Metropolitan Region due to …