Source: Washington Post by William Booth January 18, 2010 PETIONVILLE, HAITI — Through decades of coups, hurricanes, embargoes and economic collapse, members of the wily and powerful business elite of Haiti have learned the art of survival in one of the most chaotic countries on Earth — and they might come out on top again. Although Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake [...]

Nota del editor: En vez de las fotos que estamos viendo de los cuerpos sin vida, los escombros y destrucción en Haití, para contrarrestar esta desesperación, las siguientes fotos intentan de mostrar la fortaleza y solidaridad humana a pesar de lo difícil que es seguir adelante. Source: Salon Scenes of rubble and bodies are giving way to [...]

Fuente: IPS por Ansel Herz PUERTO PRÍNCIPE, 15 ene (IPS) – El techo de la penitenciaría nacional de Haití ya no existe. Las cuatro paredes de la prisión se elevan hasta un punto a partir del cual se ve apenas el cielo vacío. El portón de ingreso a la cárcel, en el centro de Puerto Príncipe, está totalmente [...]

Traducción en español de las declaraciones de Naomi Klein abajo Source: Democracy Now! Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to [...]

This article is published in Amauta with special permission from the author by Bill Quigley One. Allow all Haitians in the US to work. The number one source of money for poor people in Haiti is the money sent from family and workers in the US back home. Haitians will continue to help themselves if given a [...]

Source: Upside Down World by Ben Dangl and Jason Wallach January 13, 2010 When one looks at the historic legacy of the Haitian people, the first thing that resonates is the consistent theme of resisting foreign domination, standing up to the grandest colonial and “post-colonial” powers—principally the US—since the early 19th century. This is why the January 12th [...]

Source: The Root by Joel Dreyfuss January 12, 2010 Some countries are just not lucky. Haiti is one of those places where bad things keep happening. The massive earthquake that destroyed a large part of the 250-year-old capital city, Port-au-Prince, is just the latest blow for a country that can ill afford any more disasters. In the last [...]

Cuando las previsiones dicen que hay más de cien mil muertos tras el terremoto que ha tenido lugar en Haití es momento de hacer un poco de memoria, de recuperar la historia y de reflexionar acerca de lo que ha podido ocurrir para que esto haya sido una desgracia de tales magnitudes. Y lo digo porque la mayor parte de las noticias que estoy recibiendo están sesgadas de principio. Mantener que ha sido un desastre natural puede explicar parte de la verdad pero también esconde a algunos culpables. Sí, culpables. El problema de hablar de “desastres naturales” es que no se puede culpar a nadie. ¿O sí?

Source: Democracy Now! Part 2 and 3 below January 13, 2010 Haiti has been devastated by a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest to strike the Caribbean nation in more than two centuries. Buildings have collapsed. Fires rage in the streets. The extent of the disaster is still unknown, but there are fears thousands of people may have died [...]