More Paternalistic Lullabying as Haiti Descends Further into the Stone Age

"Death and Dancing Coexist on Haiti’s Tense Streets"

"What has Haitian political heads spinning right now are the billions in international aid that have been promised in the disaster’s wake. Misery is Haiti’s stock in trade, more so now than ever. With every announcement of a further katastwof, or catastrophe — an aftershock, the rainy season, a cholera epidemic, a potential hurricane — the chink chink chink can be heard from across the sea."

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