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Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Metaphor for No Accountability

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Look at the report and be prepared to be shocked by the photo of the main drainage canal.

The long-term negative consequences are that large quantities of solid waste is left to rot in the streets and serves as breeding ground for any number of harmful disease vectors, that rampant dumping in drainage canals occurs greatly increasing the risk of flood during the rainy season, that quantities of hazardous waste are left in the open, and that illegal dumping and burning is commonplace. After the political unrest of early 2004 the situation was greatly exacerbated as many public services effectively stopped functioning, including solid waste collection and disposal.

- by Copyright 2010 G. Nienaber
Copyright 2010 G. Nienaber

I thought I had seen and experienced the worst in lack of sanitation as a metaphor for the profane when I nearly stepped into a pile of feces in the ruins of the Port-au-Prince Cathedral (Cathà ©drale Notre-Dame) cathedral.

I was wrong.

Where is the $1.3 billion in aid? As news organizations begin the next news cycle and salivate over disaster, let's hope that they cut some of their travel expenses, find a few investigative reporters who know how to investigate the WHYS instead of the WHATS and expose the reasons and most likely the corruption that is fueling this horror.

Cross posted with the LAPROGRESSIVE and The Huffington Post


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Georgianne Nienaber is an investigative environmental and political writer. She lives in rural northern Minnesota and South Florida. Her articles have appeared in The Society of Professional Journalists' Online Quill Magazine, the Huffington (more...)
 

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