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Faith, hope and charity all somehow survived the first days of Haiti's agony. But dignity was among the first to die. There was no time or means to keep it alive once the Haitian capital was turned inside out by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the living tossed from their homes to commune with the dead in the streets. In the days following the quake, corpses had to be collected in wheelbarrows and shopping carts; at the city's Grand Cimetičre, with its elegant tombs, chickens pecked at bodies stacked along the central path, left by families who couldn...
...Friday’s interdisciplinary panel exploring the historical and political consequences of the disaster, Diaz described the Haitian earthquake as an apocalyptic event—not only in terms of its destructive force, but its stark exposure of the developing nation’s place in an international power dynamic...
...system in which we live—which we can call capitalism—this is a system in which the Haitian catastrophe is not just normal but inevitable, that in fact a large part of the world is immiserated and stripped of resources to sustain certain lives of privilege,” said Diaz, a Dominican writer catapulted to fame by his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...
...policy calls on all nations to provide for their collective security through shared responsibility of world crises. The tragedy in Haiti unmistakably qualifies as a crisis. With this in mind, the U.N. is the proper agent to organize necessary supplies and services in the short term and sustain the Haitian government in the long term, since it can best facilitate the cross-national efforts required under the Responsibility to Protect...
Those in charge of planning the recovery in Haiti must recognize the abject poverty and suffering that existed there even before the quake. In order to succeed, the U.N. must nudge the Haitian economy in the right direction by reforesting the environment and rebuilding destroyed infrastructure...