...to try and help and I guess if we help even one child to survive that is a measure of success.
Lorne Gunter: Why Haiti can’t recover
Haiti been misruled for so long by drug lords, kleptocrats and voodoo cults that it lacks the ability to rebuild itself even with aid donations.
Of all the words I’ve read to describe post-quake Haiti, the most apt is “dystopian.”
Haiti is not only the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, it is also the most wretched and dysfunctional. By nearly every measure — stability of civil society, corruption, GDP, per capita income — Haiti is in the bottom 10% of nations worldwide. The UN’s human development index pegs it at 145th of 169 studied. The only greater cesspools are in Africa.
Every tropical storm that blows through proves deadly because over the past couple of decades Haitians have completely denuded their country’s mountain forests for timber and firewood. The Dominican Republic, which occupies the eastern half of the island of Hispaniola — Haiti takes up the western half — watches the rains come and go. Meanwhile, in Haiti every thunderstorm washes more hillside into the valleys and onto the coastal plains, submerging shantytowns and washing away souls in its path. Read More »
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