Archivo etiqueta «Haití»
By Unni Karunakara, the president of the International Council of Médecins Sans Frontières (THE GUARDIAN, 29/12/10):
Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian relief system. The country is small and accessible and, following last January’s earthquake, it hosts one of the largest and best-funded international aid deployments in the world. An estimated 12,000 non-governmental organisations are there. Why then, have at least 2,500 people died of cholera, a disease that’s easily treated and controlled?
I recently went to Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and found my Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleagues overwhelmed, having already … Seguir leyendo
Por Salvador Martí Puig, profesor de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Salamanca (EL PERIÓDICO, 29/11/10):
Las imágenes que llegan de Haití son estremecedoras. No es ninguna novedad, pero últimamente -sobre todo desde el terremoto de enero de este año- todo el mundo ha podido ver la situación trágica en que se encuentra Haití. Ante este paisaje humano, hay que preguntar qué pasa en aquel país. ¿Cómo es posible que el impacto de un terremoto haya tenido unas consecuencias tan trágicas?
Desde República Dominicana, donde hace poco he estado para evaluar unos proyectos de lucha contra la pobreza, hay … Seguir leyendo
By Amy Wilentz, the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti, Then and Now (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/11/10):
In Haiti, there’s a worker called a bayakou. The bayakou comes in the middle of the night to clean latrines, which generally get shoveled out only once every year or so.
Few people ever see a bayakou. In fact, he has a status somewhere between a magical, fairy-tale figure and an untouchable. To get a bayakou to come and do his work, a homeowner must negotiate with a middleman who arranges the assignment, but won’t let you know exactly when the … Seguir leyendo
Por Julio María Sanguinetti, ex presidente de Uruguay, abogado y periodista (EL PAÍS, 25/11/10):
A fines de 1943 tuve la suerte de poder visitar el reino de Henri Christophe -las ruinas, tan poéticas, de Sans-Souci; la mole, imponentemente intacta a pesar de rayos y terremotos, de la Ciudadela La Ferriére- y de conocer la todavía normanda ciudad del Cabo -el Cap Français de la antigua colonia-, donde una calle de larguísimos balcones conduce al palacio de cantería habitado antaño por Paulina Bonaparte”. Así empieza su deslumbrado y deslumbrante relato sobre Haití Alejo Carpentier, en El reino de este mundo, cuando … Seguir leyendo
Por Irene Lozano, escritora y periodista (EL PAÍS, 23/11/10):
Como siempre, Kafka tenía la respuesta. Parece que hubiera divisado con un catalejo el futuro de esa media isla exhausta llamada Haití, con su interminable reguero de muertos, y que hubiera escrito Un médico rural para explicarnos cómo nos sentimos. El protagonista de su relato recibe un aviso urgente en medio de la noche: hay un enfermo grave en un pueblo a 10 millas de distancia. El invierno es helador en un lugar indeterminado, tal vez Europa, y en una época no revelada, quizá la nuestra. Su sentido de la … Seguir leyendo
By Mark V. Vlasic, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and partner at Ward & Ward PLLC, worked on the Haiti/Duvalier asset recovery team while serving as head of operations of the World Bank’s StAR Secretariat. He currently serves as international legal adviser to the Charles Taylor/Liberia asset recovery team (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/10/10):
Twenty-four years after Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier left a champagne-filled party at his presidential palace and boarded a chartered jet to flee Haiti, leaving a chaotic and economically scarred nation behind, a democratically elected government in Haiti now has a chance to … Seguir leyendo
By Monique Clesca, a novelist and a communication specialist for a development organization (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/09/10):
Looking out the window as the plane descended, I saw that Haiti had changed color. The familiar earthy brown tones of the mountains surrounding Port-au-Prince were no longer visible; instead, everything I could see was deep blue — the color of the thousands of tarpaulins covering the landscape.
I had last seen my country one afternoon back in January, when I was evacuated four days after the earthquake. Returning last month for a four-week trip, I was afraid to see what … Seguir leyendo
By Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where Ozlem Ergun and Julie Swann are associate professors of industrial and systems engineering and co-directors of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/07/10):
It has been six months since the earthquake in Haiti left more than 300,000 people dead and destroyed 280,000 homes and businesses. Haiti still faces a long road to recovery, but one of the biggest things literally standing in its way is earthquake debris.
The quake left an astonishing amount of debris, including concrete … Seguir leyendo
¿Cuáles son las implicaciones del terremoto en las relaciones entre Haití y la República Dominicana?
Por Carlos J. Fernández García y Rita Mena Peguero, economistas (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 18/06/10):
Tema: Este ARI estudia el papel que ha jugado la República Dominicana en la ayuda de emergencia tras el terremoto en Haití y cómo se han abierto nuevas posibilidades en las relaciones entre ambos países.
Resumen: Haití, el país más pobre de América Latina, fue afectado por un terremoto que ha sido considerado como una de las catástrofes más graves de la historia reciente, concitando la atención de la comunidad internacional. La crisis derivada de la catástrofe está teniendo, y tendrá, efectos sobre las relaciones … Seguir leyendo
By Natasha Archer, a resident in internal medicine and pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Children’s Hospital in Boston, recently spent six weeks as the volunteer coordinator for Partners in Health and as liaison between Partners in Health and Haiti’s largest hospital (THE WASHINGTON POST, 16/04/10):
None of my responses feels adequate.
Questions such as “How was Haiti?” or “How was your trip?” make it sound as though I was on vacation. But I was not on vacation in Haiti, so the usual answers — great, fine or even okay — are just not appropriate. Like every other volunteer, … Seguir leyendo
By Évelyne Trouillot, a novelist whose short stories have appeared in the collection Words Without Borders (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/04/10):
At 8 o’clock on Easter morning, the preacher at the Reformed Baptist church near my house was back to exhorting the young people not to have sex before marriage. He no longer brandishes the earthquake as proof that some malevolent God is angry with Haiti for its sins.
On Monday morning, school was supposed to have started again. But it was a very timid reopening. After all, most schools are still covered with debris. And most parents are … Seguir leyendo
By Pooja Bhatia, a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/04/10):
The image came to Jerry Rosembert as he and his father wandered the dust-clouded streets downtown, where they lived, toward the Champs de Mars.
In the hours after the earthquake struck on Jan. 12, thousands of his shocked countrymen had congregated in the giant plaza, weeping and crying out for Jesus. Jerry, a 25-year-old graffiti artist, knew what to do: with a can of spray paint, he turned a map of Haiti into a person who cried and held his hands skyward … Seguir leyendo
By Dimitry Elias Léger, a former staff writer for Fortune magazine and a consultant to the United Nations in Haiti (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/04/10):
On the corner of Mon Repos 46 and Rue Concorde in this seaside hamlet, the epicenter of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless, sits the only house I own.
Low-slung and lavishly shaded by giant almond trees, it is the house my father built and lived in for more than 40 years. He never got around to finishing the second floor, which was useful when I was … Seguir leyendo
Por Mario Vargas Llosa © Derechos mundiales de prensa en todas las lenguas reservados a Ediciones EL PAÍS, SL, 2010 (EL PAÍS, 04/04/10):
Emergió entre las ruinas del Palacio Legislativo de Puerto Príncipe como una aparición. Era un caballero de ébano, erecto e impecable, una presencia inverosímil en ese mediodía de calor torrencial, con su traje azul tan bien planchado, su chaleco, su corbata colorada, sus gruesos guantes negros de cuero y lana, su sombrero de fieltro, su bastón con un mapamundi en la empuñadura, su espada flamígera en el costado derecho y su daga sarracena en el izquierdo. En … Seguir leyendo
Par Ban Ki-moon, secrétaire général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies (LE MONDE, 31/03/10):
Juché sur une colline, le Club de golf de Pétionville surplombe Port-au-Prince et la mer. Ses parcours jadis bien soignés accueillent ces jours-ci près de 50 000 personnes, parmi les quelque 1,2 million qui ont été déplacées par le tremblement de terre et qui se retrouvent entassées dans des tentes ou des appentis en bâche fournis par l’ONU ou des organismes internationaux de secours.
Lorsque je m’y suis rendu la semaine dernière, le soleil brillait. La vie continuait, semble-t-il : les enfants jouaient, les mères faisaient la lessive en … Seguir leyendo