The stars are so bright in the night Port au Prince .. never seen so clear in a capital city. And they tell of a city where there are now whole areas in the dark after sunset. And without electricity during the day. The street who wants to upload their mobile phone, it does have a few stalls that the generator. Life is divided between the tent city, where by day there are nearly only women and children and the street, more full of men, many of whom now work to clean the streets, in exchange for money but do not receive food.
aid arriving almost exclusively to women, considered to be more responsible .. and quantities of rice are given to those who manage to get them to allow the requirement for at least 20 days, in fact last much less, each woman has to feed at least three children, and more.
There seems to be more attentive to foreign associations that Haitians who are here, it seems that little information appearing in magazines and newspapers, should increase even more the false statements in a country that has never had the honor of being described objectively. It seems you do everything to frighten, to deter think that a disaster like that does not necessarily lead to a huge violence. Seeking news of Haiti in Italian newspapers and there is a huge gap, you do not write anything, the shock value is over because they are finite images of dead and trucks loaded with corpses. "Reconstruction", the post is not news. And if there is something mysterious and alarming of the curfew.
me that they had to say Italy because they become aware of. You just do not talk, even more, it is not known. It 'just a new idea is terrifying. Not that there is no curfew, it's just one thing that this country has lived for decades. No one would dream of going west to downtown after seven in the evening the place without someone to accompany him, but here as in any other South American capital and beyond. Here I go out quietly in Petionville in the evening to eat something other than rice and chicken or drinking a beer along with other people. And we're not afraid, not the air you breathe the danger that both like to tell the media. The peace is not news, then you must implement it with the paranoia and terror that by now '11/09 has no end. And that distorts everything. There
life, a return to the everyday that you see in containers full of clothes and soap to wash under tents made of fabrics and blankets, in the markets in the streets, in the desire to distract themselves by playing football, listening to the radio or sketching a few dance steps. There is a strong need for children to occupy their days, now that do not go to school because they are almost all collapsed, many during the lesson. The government says it will reopen in mid-March, but it's hard to believe given the immobility of the situation. Many roads can not yet go into the car so I am in the rubble on the ground, and the inhabitants are struggling to navigate the city center, since there are no more reference points.
The plan for downtown is to raze everything to the ground and rebuild the city from scratch, There are already dozens of American officials on a visit to study their plans better .. and to think that ground zero has yet to see achieve his ambition after nine years.
When I come home at night and then I go on the internet, I find myself with journalists of all nationalities and all in some way we are discouraged to see the gravity of the situation and the little space that comes from information given to this tragedy, which continues , despite the fact that abroad it seems already forgotten. Maybe today will hear about, there was so much clamor for the arrival of the French president in an area where none of his predecessor after Haitian independence (we speak of 1804) had set foot. He confirmed that remove the debt that the country is' paying to France for 200 years now and for the next two years will give millions of euro.
There is the certainty that the rainy season, which starts here in April and expect that this year is more intense than usual, cause many deaths and hardships. And right now that I write, it starts raining, raining ..
Who can afford it is' out of the country, mainly in Miami where there is a great community, despite the name, Little Haiti. This will cause a dispersion, a huge diaspora of the ruling class or middle class, however, that in every country is the one that controls, for better or for worse. Last night
I met an Englishman who works as a bodyguard of journalists and photographers, one of those who after 30 years of experience could be filled with stories all night. And who can terrorize in 10 minutes ... I did a crash course in first aid, first aid, firearm, giving me liquid bandages and never known before. Interesting in her, even if by taking it with pliers, according to him everything I've done so far is unfortunate. But I think it is safer to run with a Haitian who knows the language and the places with English with a bulletproof vest. At least here, at least now.
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