city:port-au-prince

Guest Post: Haiti and the Shock Doctrine
►http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2012/09/guest-post-haiti-and-shock-doctrine

In the middle of Port-au-Prince, along a dusty road and behind some imposing metal gates, sits the E-Power electricity plant. In a capital city where electricity blackouts are a nightly occurrence, E-Power is the kind of company the international financial institutions (IFIs) running Haiti believe will lead “reform” - by taking power away from the state-run company, and running it for profit. The company was founded in 2004 by a group of Haitian venture capitalists excited by the departure of social-democratic president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The aim, it said, was to “offer a solution to power generation in Haiti”. Sure enough, two years later, in 2006, the new United States-backed president, René Préval, launched an open bid for a contract to provide electricity to Haiti’s capital city. (...)

Cholera in Haiti: A True-Crime Medical Thriller | The Tyee
▻http://thetyee.ca/Culture/2016/06/22/Cholera-In-Haiti

[Dr. Renaud Piarroux, a French epidemiologist] was startled to find UN agencies like the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) — and the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — uninterested in finding the source of the outbreak.

(...) this was baffling. The American and UN authorities seemed to be committed to an “environmental” origin for cholera in the Caribbean Sea. (...) the UN and U.S. agencies even brought in a team of investigators who had built their careers on the theory of environmental cholera.

(...) just before leaving Haiti, Piarroux received a secret document: a report by the MSPP, made in the very early days of the outbreak. With remarkable speed, the ministry had sent a team to the Artibonite River and identified the source as the Nepali camp. They’d been denied entry to the camp, but local residents provided plenty of details.

So within days of the outbreak the Haitians had known its source — and so had CDC and PAHO. Why hadn’t they said so, and why had Préval dismissed the idea of finding it?

(...) Haiti was (and is) ruled by a coalition of UN and U.S. agencies plus a chaotic mass of non-governmental organizations. The government in Port-au-Prince was (and is) far from sovereign. Préval had understood his situation, and had sent Piarroux the ministry report anonymously, to help him tell the world what he himself could not.

(...) alarmingly for any serious public health expert, a lot of public health experts went along with the scam. While thousands of Haitians were dying in puddles of their own vomit and diarrhea, the experts did their considerable best to lie to the world about why those people were dying.

#choléra #haïti #nations_unies

"Complicated, Difficult, Emotional": Treating Victims of Sexual Violence in #Haïti

Dr. Lisa Searle recently returned from Haiti where she set up a new sexual violence clinic in Port-au-Prince.

▻http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/complicated-difficult-emotional-treating-victims-sexual-viole
#viol #culture_de_viol #violences_sexuelles
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How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-

The Neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a deflated volleyball in a...

PEPE // Paolo Woods
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In the Port-au-Prince’s Fifth Avenue market, located in the former slave market, women receive full containers of second-hand clothing imported from the United-States. The women call them “pèpè” and it is difficult today to see a garment in Haiti that has not initially been worn by an American. Most of these “pèpè” exported back on the island have been refused by secondhand retail chains and transit via American-Haitian sorting plants in Miami.
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The worst redneck t-shirts, those that no one would even dare sell
to tourists on Time Square, those with the most obscene slogans,
reappear through the miracle of free trade in the island’s most
remote provinces. Something of the globalization is at play here,
in this coming and going of togs.
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#t-shirt #haiti #photo #globalization #pepe #paolo_woods

Rape, homelessness, cholera hound Haiti 2 yrs after quake -IOM - AlertNet
►http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/rape-homelessness-cholera-hound-haiti-2-yrs-after-quake-iom

“Free services like water have gone. Non-governmental organisations have had to pull out because of a lack of funding. Donor fatigue has set in. Conditions are really tough,” Leonard Doyle, IOM’s communications officer told AlertNet in a telephone interview from Port-au-Prince.

“You can’t ignore these people who are enduring horrendous conditions. Rape is a big, big problem,” Doyle added. “A plastic tent offers no protection. It just takes a blade using a knife to enter a tent. Some women and girls have been victims of multiple rapes.”

While the number of Haitians living in camps has decreased by 66 percent from a July 2010 peak of 1.5 million, the pace of people leaving the camps has slowed recently. Over the last four months, the camp population has fallen by only 6 percent.

#Haiti #viol #choléra #santé