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July/August 2010 NACLA ReportFault Lines: Perspectives on Haiti's Earthquake
On January 12, 2010, for 30 seconds the earth shook and reduced Haiti—a nation already struggling with the historical weight of slavery, underdevelopment, imperialism, and intense internal divisions—to rubble. Haiti dominated the airwaves and cyberspace for weeks, bombarding world citizens with words and images at once contradictory, controversial, consuming, and ultimately confusing: The earthquake seemed to have as many meanings as people with access to a blog. In the newest edition of NACLA Report on the Americas, we aim to sort out critical perspectives on the disaster. This means not only understanding the tectonic fault lines running beneath Haiti but also the deep economic, political, social, and historical cleavages within and surrounding the country.
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‘We Bend, but We Don't Break’: Fighting for a Just Reconstruction in Haitiby Beverly Bell
Grassroots Haitian movements for social justice have set themselves a formidable task: Not only addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis, but also challenging the reconstruction effort to include their leadership and avoid reproducing the conditions that helped make the January 12 earthquake so disastrous. As a popular Haitian saying goes, "We are bamboo. We bend, but we don't break." This expression of resolve in the face of adversity is in wide circulation in Haiti these days.
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by Sonja Wolf
When Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes took office in 2009 his administration promised to tackle crime in all its forms through social prevention, law enforcement, rehabilitation, victim support, and institutional and legal reforms. However, after attacks on two buses in San Salvador on June 20, which killed 17 people, the Funes administration resuscitated old and failed iron-fisted policies towards street gangs, who officials say were behind the killings. With a surprising capacity for historical amnesia, the government is now abandoning its previous reservations about gang suppression and argues that the current bloodshed requires radical measures.
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