This is a guest post by Isabeau, our friend in Haiti A tense Friday morning in Port-au-Prince: shots fired in the air and blows traded between UN security personnel and a crowd of some 100 demonstrators gathered outside the UN headquarters in Port-au-Prince to protest the renewal of the forces’ mandate here. Though the mandate [...]
Só pra esclarecer: Brasil não tem nada de vítima; tem é culpa e uma grande responsabilidade por estra tragédia!! Exprtou o modelo de repressão carioca pro Haiti e deu nisso: se não tivesse terremoto, talvez tivessemos 100mil mortos de qq jeito, mortos pela MINUSTAH, ou que sabe, 100mil mulheres haitianas estupradas pelos “salvadores” brasileiros… That [...]
Today’s Guardian seemed very keen that we be morally outraged that wealthy tourists are visiting earthquake-stricken Haiti in cruise ships. The precise justification for this disgust, however, isn’t really very clear. I’m happy to concede that one thing highlighted in the story – the fact that the Labadee resort where the Independence of the Seas [...]
As you’re probably already aware – since it’s already all over the news and the blogs – the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (so poor, lest we forget, that people were eating mud to stave off starvation a year and a half before this thing hit) was devastated by an earthquake yesterday. You can [...]
