Monday, January 17, 2011

The Boston Globe's Haitian Memory Hole

If only they could throw the rubble down there:

"Haiti observes quake’s anniversary" by Associated Press / January 13, 2011

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Dignitaries from around the world are in Haiti to mark the anniversary. But they are also facing skepticism from a Haitian public that expected more progress toward reconstruction.   

They are not the only ones. I'm appalled at the globalist neglect.

Aid groups say only about 5 percent of the rubble from the quake has been removed.  

After a flipping year?

I guess there are not any thermite-scarred steel beams in that rubble.

At least a million displaced people, including 380,000 children, are still in 1,200 tent-and-shack encampments....

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The only mention I could find of the cholera epidemic was in this front-page Partner's promotion piece

Also see: Spirit still willing for volunteer in Haitian crisis

After arrival full of hope, many Haitians despair in US

And back down the hole we go....