Pretty simple, really. “Many of the Haitians currently at the border are believed to have been living in South America after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, but the toll of the pandemic on the region fueled migration to the US southern border,” CNN says (read story here). The Biden adminis[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Haiti’
December 12th, 2016 - 1:56 am § in Misc.
Hood in Haiti
Michael Hood Another day, dear readers, in this land so vitally foreign to my home sweet home, the the slushy wonder that is Seattle. I extricate myself yearly because of the dark and rain, to escape Christmas, and because I have this wandering foot, that’s afflicted me all my life. I have f[...]
October 11th, 2016 - 6:41 am § in Environment, Misc.
Mass Graves in Haiti
Reuters Hurricane Matthew toll in Haiti rises to 1,000, dead buried in mass graves By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated[...]
December 16th, 2015 - 10:48 am § in Misc.
Anybody got a goude?
Michael Hood This is the sorry state of Haitian currency. everyone kvetches about it, not just foreigners. The feel is like limp fabric; the bills’ dishragitude defies them orderliness in a stack or a wad- and it’s tres necessaire to have stacks and wads in order to live and pay for it h[...]
December 28th, 2010 - 9:00 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
How to Help Education in Haiti
A guide to groups assisting education in Haiti.[...]
Michael Hood: Where did the DNA go?
Michael Hood It felt glorious, the culmination of months of imagined scenarios, and dreams of successes and failures. It had been an unmitigated success. I rode in the no. 3 position on the motorcycle as we sped back through the late afternoon sun and long shadows, over ruts and rivulets, leaning fo[...]