On CNN I have seen the pictures of the storm-wrecked country of Haiti after the hurricanes Gustav and Hanna. Pictures of poor people in flooded homes. Before the recent hurricanes Haiti was already one of the poorest countries in the world. Food has become expensive and scarce leaving the poorest of the population to eat “mud cakes”… simple recipe: salt, vinegar and dirt mixed and baked. The mud cakes can fill the belly and give a few needed minerals.
Haiti is, as known, situated in the Caribbean, occupying one third of the island of Hispaniola, where the other two thirds consist of the Dominican Republic.
CNN also showed storm pictures from the Dominican Republic, mostly I remember the Hummers and other big SUVs driving through the raising waters, and I am quite sure that nobody on the Dominican part of the island are eating mud cakes…
On the same CNN news I saw how US navy was distributing aid to the refugees of Georgia.
I truly do think that the needed in Georgia deserves help, and I feel thankful that they receive aid. But I was missing to see the US navy distributing aid to the needed people of Haiti. It really frustrates me that anybody has to eat mud to survive. And it frustrates me that this is just south of Florida; and on the neighbour island to Puerto Rico, that is a part of the USA.
It is indeed gladly that USA can help needed people in far away countries, but why have they not felt the need to help the extremely troubled population of Haiti..?
I hate to think that the aid that USA gives to needed people is merely decided upon political or economical terms, rather than the suffering. Still Haiti has nothing whatsoever to offer USA; no raw materials, no oil, no strategic importance, and besides in all this misery a tragic comic dispute is happening between the powerful USA and Haiti, over a small uninhabited island called Navassa, which USA claims to belong to USA and Haiti claims it to belong to them.
Nobody in the world seems to care about Haiti, other than CNN reporters to get some catastrophic pictures, and in the meantime 8 million people there are suffering extremely hard.
Do they not need same attention as the suffering people of Georgia..?
But at least they have their mud on Haiti, perhaps they lack that in Georgia…
