Cholera rioting in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien have erupted against the United Nations and their relief efforts. Cholera fears are rising as the death toll continues to climb past 1,110 people. Over 18,000 people have contracted cholera and are sick from it. The tiny Caribbean nation is still recovering from the shock of a massive earthquake in January. Many blame UN peacekeepers for bringing cholera to Haiti and have been attacking the 12,000 UN troops, even burning down their quarters, since Monday. Neighboring Dominican Republic have closed their borders to prevent cholera from spreading. Meanwhile, United States President Barack Hussein Obama has said nothing about Haiti in his many speeches the past two weeks, remaining silent, or oblivious, to the Haitian’s growing plight. Several cases of cholera related to Haiti have now appeared in Florida.
Haiti is scheduled to hold elections on November 28th with current President Rene Preval endorsing Unity Party candidate Jude Celestin. How the cholera epidemic will impact the elections is unclear. United Nations spokesman Andre Leclerc assures the world that the UN is doing all it can to help Haiti. However, billions of dollars in relief money from the United States and other nations have yet to be spent. An estimated $5 Billion from America alone remains tied up in bureaucracy.
Some 250,000 people died in Haiti during the January 2010 earthquake which literally destroyed the largest city, the capital of Port Au Prince. During the critical first week, relief efforts were slow as the country’s only airport was clogged by private jets full of news reporters. Only after U.S. military arrived on the scene did genuine relief efforts get underway, but for many victims trapped in rubble, it was too late.
Since January, an international rescue has tried to help with food, water and medical assistance. But over one million people were left homeless and are still today. Former president Bill Clinton was placed in charge of America’s aid program by Barack Hussein Obama. Even George W. Bush was asked to lend a hand. But red tape has prevented nearly $5 Billion dollars from being spent to help the Haitian victims.
A breakout of cholera is tied to UN peacekeepers from Nepal, who have a base near the Artibonite River, a major source of drinking water. Cholera rioting against United nations troops and personnel began on Monday. After many buildings were burnt down, including a warehouse holding 500 tons of food, the cholera riots have subsided since Wednesday. But the country is on a hair-trigger as the mounting death toll nears 1,200 with over 18,000 others having contracted cholera. Fear of it spreading further has resulted in the Dominican republic closing it’s border with Haiti. Three cases of cholera have now been reported in Florida from Haiti, proving that the United States is vulnerable, too.
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November 20th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Is the repetitive use of President Obama’s middle name a form or backhanded racists politics? I wonder? No, it can’t be…oh wait, it is. The writer should be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating hated, bias and racism. I clicked on a story about Haiti and Cholera and end up reading political bullsh-t.
November 20th, 2010 at 5:11 am
@ Skeptic,
Would you have preferred I called him by his real name? Barry Soetoro?
November 20th, 2010 at 5:14 am
BTW, ‘Skeptic’ (if that truly is your name)…
The only political bullsh*t I see here is that after some 10 months, despite a so-called humane and compassionate Democrat-run White House and Congress, $5 Billion dollars of badly needed aid to Haiti is sill sitting in a bank somewhere. Why is that? Where are the ‘journ-O-lists’ on that story?
November 20th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Skeptic…
Yuou dont know me, but the authors choice was actually very respectful and uncalled for.
If this were Hollywood he’d have the national guard air dropping Perrier for them.
Maybe he and Chewbacca should go do a photo op on some Haitian beach showing everyone how safe it is.
“Hussein” is racist ? Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of liberal parents who’ve given their newborns that name.
November 20th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Disclaimer- this is just a simple interent post, it may not be 100% fact. I am not looking for debate, I am just saying….
Talk about racism, from what I understand (and I could be wrong, no reason to go ballastic, I am only talking here) racism is what seems to continue to divide this island nation. I never understood why it was 2 countries anyway… with one side seeming to do so well, while the other side has so much misery. I am no expert on the subject, but I think I read these people, from the same island, feel they have differently enough colored skin to divide them and the two races and do not like each other. There appears to be various reasons and backgrounds for the color differences, but on simple basis, for the good of the whole island, one might think they would want to get together and feel allright.
If that happened maybe instead of everyone (again) relying on the good ole USA coming in to bail them out….. maybe a better idea might be a merger of the 2 countries….. but I guess that can never happen as long as they do not view each other as equal humans. Anyway, when I read that the D.R. “closes its borders” to prevent the spread of the disease, is is kind of sad.
As I said, I am no expert on any of this, so these is no sense anyone going balistic telling me I am full of sht, I admit it could be true…… but from a simple point of view it sure seems like a combined island government might help the whole island, but it probably can never happen, even though East and West Germany did get back together and seem to have worked it out (once again I am no expert, I am just saying)
November 20th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Before anyone comes in screamin hootin & hollerin, I though I better post at least one other source that says what I said….. becasue I wrote from memory….. learnt somewhere looooooong ago, anyway… I searched and found this regarding the racial divide… of course they could be all full of sht too…. so just rel;ax, it is not a big deal. (I wonder if I have added enough disclaimers?
http://www.allempires.com/article/index.php?q=conflict_haiti_dominican
When the Haitian Revolution broke out in 1791, thousands of Whites fled the colony both during and after the revolt to escape the wrath of their slaves. Those few remaining were massacred by Dessalines in 1805 to protect the revolution. As a consequence, Haiti was a nation with a large Black majority and a relatively small number of mulattos. In Santo Domingo, the contrary was true. Racial intermarriage between the Spaniards and the Blacks created mulattos who are today the majority. In 1822-1844, Boyer, the Haitian president, tried to influence the population composition of Santo Domingo. He encouraged 10,000 free Blacks from the U.S.A. to settle there. However, this policy failed since the majority of these Blacks quickly left the island. The remaining few had virtually no impact on creating a population similar to that of Haiti as Boyer probably wanted. This difference in racial makeup helped amplify and worsen Dominican-Haitian rivalry.
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What would motivate me to even bother posting my thoughts and risk the wrath of crazy posters? …. well, maybe someone somewhere might see it, and say they seems to easy… and it might spark something and do some good, probably not, but I am an optometrist…. opps I mean opthamologist…. oops I mean…. I am an optimist, for now anyway.