- Title
- The devastation of Haiti
- Creator
- Pithouse, Richard, 1970-
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6207
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008577
- Description
- [From introduction] The devastation of Haiti is not a simple matter of bad luck. Earthquakes, like storms and epidemics, hit the poor with vastly more force than the rich. Much of the press coverage of the catastrophe in Haiti has wilfully disregarded the history of how Haiti was made poor and kept poor by, above all, the same American elites that are now dispensing charity, soldiers and advice. Racism has often been close to the surface or even grinning hideously far above it
- Format
- 2p., pdf
- Publisher
- South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS)
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Pithouse, Richard Michael (2010) The devastation of Haiti. South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS) Newsletter.
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