Haitians desperate despite calm in streets

[struggle4progress]

.. on Thursday, Haitians slowly returned to their daily activities as a semblance of normalcy appeared to be returning to the Caribbean nation, even as a large demonstration was reported in Arcahaie, one hour north of Port-au-Prince ...

Yet Haiti's political landscape remained volatile as political parties reiterated their call for Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis' resignation and 16 senators gave an ultimatum: resign or face censure ...

''There are a lot of people who are hungry,'' said Henry, 21, who moved to the capital two years ago from Jacmel to attend high school. He described how at 13 cents a minute he must sell as least 40 minutes worth of calls to afford the cellphone's weekly $5.50 rental fee, while hoping there is enough left over for food, rent and school tuition ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/491267.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. No free public schools. Haitians are living in hell, thanks to foreign interference.

They can least afford school expenses. What a cruel stroke to force them to pay for something which would be free had they been lucky enough to have been born elsewhere.

[Mika]

2. Actually, Haiti needs some foreign "interference" - of the good kind.

I'm sure that Cuba and Venezuela would do a damned fine job of helping Haiti establish some desperately needed infrastructure. Unfortunately, even attempting to do so would lead to further confrontation with the US and its corporate allies.


"Castro? We wish for one hundred, one thousand Castros in Haiti!" - an all too often refrain in his homeland, as told to me by a Haitian acquaintance several years ago.


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