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Post by lagatta on Aug 14, 2021 19:35:12 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 14, 2021 20:09:55 GMT
Now 227.
Haiti seems to be a country permanently blighted by various situations.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 14, 2021 22:05:37 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 15, 2021 21:42:30 GMT
Now 700 plus
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Post by questa on Aug 15, 2021 23:25:11 GMT
If Nature can't wreck it, the politics will.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2021 23:46:11 GMT
Maybe the United States can pour in some of that money they're saving from Afghanistan.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 16, 2021 14:43:36 GMT
I wish we'd have poured in some of the money we are wasting on a pointless (and pandemic) federal election.
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Post by casimira on Aug 16, 2021 14:48:29 GMT
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/14/haiti-struck-by-earthquakeI wonder if any of the (ruined) Creole architecture is familiar to anyporters who live or have lived in NOLA?
Very much so here Lagatta.
Our new home design is very much in the style of Caribbean homes often seen in Haiti. (the former house was a Craftsman style).
All I can think of is how much these folks have suffered already and are barely recuperating from previous natural disasters.
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Post by bjd on Aug 16, 2021 16:05:22 GMT
I'm starting to think that pouring ever more money into Haiti doesn't seem to do any good. Just today I heard a radio interview with a guy from Doctors Without Borders. He said that lately they had been closing clinics because of the security situation -- armed gangs and general violence, especially in Port au Prince. Another country with extremes of wealth/corruption and poverty, with of course, much more of the latter.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 16, 2021 17:42:16 GMT
Yes, for example, it is very different from Brazil, which has great income inequality (and many corrupt politicians) but also has a large middle class, as well as extremes of wealth and poverty. Most people in Haiti are poor or destitute.
There was an interview on Radio-Canada with a doctor working in Haiti; his father is from Haiti, his mother Québécoise by origin - who said that for the time being, the gangs were letting medical staff through without stealing from them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2021 0:19:17 GMT
Another country with extremes of wealth/corruption and poverty, with of course, much more of the latter. At least they don't have the poison of religious extremism! I remember all of the times when various imams in Iran have said that earthquakes in various places were a form of divine punishment. They never seem to say that where there is an earthquake in Iran.
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