Bottom line: Daisey lied. Yet abuses at electronic consumer product factories continue.
Twenty months later, has anything really improved? In his final report, AJE’s Sebastian Walker summarizes life since the earthquake and asks why, despite a massive international recovery effort, the situation for most Haitians has barely gotten better. It may be getting worse.
Haiti’s most popular politician is banned from the country.
‘What if ‘cash for work’ programs are actually bad for Haiti? No one has been asking—except Haiti Grassroots Watch.’
“There is no doubt the aid money has saved thousands of lives here and provided relief to millions, especially in the aftermath of the earthquake. But whether the efforts of well-funded aid groups—some of which have been in Haiti for 50 years—can improve Haiti’s long-term outlook is another matter.”
‘Protests are continuing in Haiti over the cholera outbreak that has now killed more than 1,100 people and infected some 17,000. On Wednesday, residents in the city of Cap-Haïtien clashed with U.N. troops for the third consecutive day. Crowds have taken to the streets expressing anger at the Haitian government and the United Nations for failing to contain the disease. We go to Cap-Haïtien to speak with independent journalist Ansel Herz.’
Protesters clash with UN peacekeepers in second-largest city of Cap Haitien over epidemic that has killed more than 900.
In Haiti, a cholera outbreak has reached the capital Port-au-Prince, where more than a million people are still homeless and living in crowded tent cities following January’s deadly earthquake. Meanwhile in Washington, Congress has put up another obstacle to delivering the $1.15 billion in reconstruction money it promised to Haiti back in March. We go to Port-au-Prince to speak with Jonathan Katz, Haiti correspondent for the Associated Press, and we are joined by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat. (democracynow.org)
Confirmed cases outside Artibonite region raise concerns that disease could reach camps sheltering quake survivors.
