Catastrophe in Haiti underneath Port-au-Prince caused the earthquake--and that Haiti's poverty and the incapacity of the Préval government made the disaster so much worse. But they didn't delve below the surface. "The media coverage of the earthquake is marked by an almost complete divorce of the disaster from the social and political history of Haiti," Canadian Haiti Solidarity Activist Yves Engler said in an interview. "They repeatedly state that the government was completely unprepared to deal with the crisis. This is true. But they left out why." Why were 60 percent of the buildings in Port-au-Prince shoddily constructed and unsafe in normal circumstances, according to the city's mayor? Why ar...

Earthquake may expose Haiti's poverty Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow is the chief executive of Mary's Meals, a British charity that runs school feeding projects in the world's poorest countries which ...

The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose The mainstream media will not do exposes showing that Haiti’s poverty, deforestation and instability is the result of the theft and exploitation of Haiti by the world’s wealthy countries, their corporations and subcontracting, non-tax-paying Haitian mercenary families. These untouchables - Category Two (Bafyòti yo)- get no such mainstream journalistic exposes though they, with their forces (Ndòki) - that is, the military, economic, diplomatic, political, neocolonial and media power of the US/Euro imperialist (Category One) are the ones maintaining slavery, misrule and poverty in Haiti - turning an entire nation of over 9 milllion Blacks into restaveks! Ezili HLLN's work an...

	MSU student from Haiti recalls contrasts with U.S.» Times Record News The extent of Haiti's poverty is difficult to grasp, said Rhonda Pape, who traveled with her husband to Haiti almost a decade ago. They eventually adopted a ... Help Haiti's earthquake survivors by donating to the Red Cross Given Haiti's poverty rate, they are a suffering people. As the day light breaks in the morning, we do not know how many died in this quake or how many more ... Ta-Nehisi Coates It's chilling to watch the news reports with their constant mentions about Haiti's poverty (which ain't nothing new). That meme-true though it may ... Report says 225,000 Haiti children work as slaves PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Poverty has forced at least 225000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously ... Haiti ... poverty-stricken nation dealt one more disaster» Naples Daily News It is widely remarked that every time Haiti seems poised to turn the corner toward stability and prosperity disaster strikes — hurricanes, riots, coups. ... Venezuela leads the solidarity relief effort / World / Home ... when the US exacerbated Haiti's poverty by denying the country any cash for several years in protest at the policies of Haiti's then-president ...