Sunday, October 9, 2016
IN STORM BATTERED HAITI
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/8lac65/picture107043262/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/Matthew+Haiti+f+epf
"To say the least, the situation is not good
(we) don't have water. (we) don't have food"
so why do relief trucks pass us by?
Do you want me now to tell a lie?
THIS IS WHAT THEY DO IN HAITI !
The terrible storm and dangerous trash
are wiping out lives by the score,
yet despite an obvious emergency
our corrupt politicians see a different urgency.
Even though relief supplies would help greatly in the mess,
because they're free, they're bad for business,
so, instead,right now they'd prefer cash
and a little later, please send more!
HzL
10/9/16
“The people are in a dire situation. They lost everything. They don’t have water, they don’t have food,” an exasperated Charles said. “So they just revolted.
“They need water, they need food, they need zinc sheeting [for rebuilding homes],” he added. “I understand them, but this is a crime. It’s another crime.”
The leader of the protest: Fritzna Charles, a Miami resident who said she was there to support the residents.
Asked why she blocked the street, she screamed: “Because this is what they do in Haiti!”
Charles said she decided to join the others in the mutiny after they saw a convoy of food pass their storm-damaged homes and head in the direction of Port Salut, a coastal town battered by Matthew, without stopping in their neighborhood.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article106907692.html#storylink=cpy
In the news
In tense western Haiti, an attempt to hijack hurricane-relief supplies
Miami Herald - 21 hours ago
An attempt to hijack hurricane-relief supplies is a sign of the anger in rural western Haiti, ...
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Fritza Charles is pushed out of the way as a Haitian National Police officer takes a man away from a protest where branches were spread across the middle of the road in Hock, Haiti, to block a convoy of food Saturday, Oct. 18, 2016.PATRICK FARRELL pfarrell@miamiherald.com
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