On January 12 there was an earthquake measuring 7.0 degrees Richter Haiti, which was less intense than that occurred in Mexico City in 1985 (8.1 Richter scale), however the impact on human lives been much higher. There are 200,000 deaths that have been recorded and humanitarian aid has come slowly.
Consider that Haiti is a country that has consolidated political structures, and in the words of Elisabeth Byrs, United Nations staff, "(We) in relation to a 'beheaded' with no political or governmental structures in we can help and aid coordination and work rescue complicates things. "
Also one of the poorest countries historically or" least developed ", according to the World Trade Organization (WTO), being that 70% of its population lives in poverty, and its economy depends on agriculture, but is mostly for subsistence. Its mountainous areas are deforested and has never done a proper development plan. Furthermore, the reality is that malnutrition in Haiti is indisputable.
So the earthquake is a devastating event for a country in itself devastated. That is why the relevance of the intervention of the United States (U.S.) what makes me think of a new style of colonization. Personally, I think that although urgently needed to establish order in the region, that does not depend on the troops sent by the U.S., but the UN blue helmets.
But looking from the social point of view, we see the terrible situation. Even the International Committee of the Red Cross from Geneva said that in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, tens of thousands of people live on Tuesday on the streets, while in that city are growing reports of robberies carried out by men armed with machetes .
"There is chaos everywhere. No area was spared from destruction. People wander aimlessly in search of food, water and relief ", said Simon Schorno, a spokesman for the Red Cross, referring to the picture of the situation in the Haitian capital.
" Many cross handkerchiefs on their faces to protect against stench of decomposing bodies. There are no shops, no plastic containers, no place to cook. Nor are there any sites personal hygienic needs, "said Schorno, who was in the neighborhoods of Christ-Roi, Nazon, Centre-Ville, Delmas and Canape-Vert.
The spokesman said Prince in about forty armed camps precarious in which people stay in them lack almost everything except some blankets and fabrics recovered from the ruins.
addition, it set off alarm bells in the city over allegations of incursions by armed looters. One resident quoted by the BBC online, said that "men wielding machetes burst into the few buildings left standing to steal money."
Resources:
· http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/652237.html
· http:/ / noticias.123.cl/entel123/html/Tele13/Noticias/Internacional/394398.html
· http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizie/rubriche/mundo/20100116204135012404.html
· http://www.eluniversal.com .mx/internacional/65629.html
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