Archivo «Viernes, 29/ene/2010»

Par Justine Martin, ATER à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (LE MONDE, 29/01/10):

“Les gens s’écriaient : ‘Le poète est vivant !’“ Telle est l’image que retient Dany Laferrière du terrible tremblement de terre qu’il a vécu en Haïti.

Au milieu du fracas, la presse, elle, ne parle que du nombre des morts, de la “puanteur” des corps gangrénés, des pillards, de l’insécurité qui, dit-on, règne dans le pays où la distribution des vivres et des soins aux blessés est retardée par cette situation cataclysmique.

D’Haïti, sans doute, les Français ne se faisaient qu’une idée bien vague, avant la catastrophe. … Seguir leyendo

By Paul Collier, an economics professor at Oxford, was a special adviser on Haiti to the United Nations secretary general in 2009 and Jean-Louis Warnholz, the managing director of a business consulting company, was an economic adviser to Haiti’s prime minister in 2009 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/01/10):

In an astonishing outpouring of generosity, nearly half of American households have donated money to help Haiti recover from the recent earthquake. The United States government and other governments around the world, for their part, have sent thousands of relief workers and have pledged $1 billion so far. But Haitians … Seguir leyendo

By Joachim von Amsberg, the World Bank’s country director for Indonesia since 2007, oversees the bank’s management of the Multi Donor Fund for Aceh and Nias (THE WASHINGTON POST, 29/01/10):

The official death toll of the recent earthquake in Haiti is more than 110,000. That tens of thousands more may have been killed puts this tragedy on par with that wrought by the tsunami that struck South Asia in December 2004, killing about 200,000 people and displacing more than half a million just in Indonesia’s Aceh province. There are other parallels between these disasters. Haiti is a poor country … Seguir leyendo