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Port-Au-Prince: A City of Millions Without a Sewer System
National Public Radio ^ | April 13, 2012 | Richard Knox

Posted on 01/13/2018 9:20:53 AM PST by PBRCat

Port-au-Prince is about the size of Chicago. But it doesn't have a sewer system. It's one of the largest cities in the world without one.

That's a big problem, but never more so than during a time of cholera... the disease is endemic — more than a half-million people have gotten sick and at least 7,050 have died.

The cumulative sewage of 3 million people flows through open ditches. It mixes with ubiquitous piles of garbage. Each night, an all-but-invisible army of workers called bayakou descend into man-sized holes with buckets to remove human waste from septic pits and latrines, then dump it into the canals that cut through the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disease; haiti; hellhole; sanitation; sewage
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A flashback news report from a liberal source. Taken in context, whatever Trump may have said was correct as applied to Haiti.
1 posted on 01/13/2018 9:20:53 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

You mean, the Clinton Foundation hasn’t built them one??


2 posted on 01/13/2018 9:23:24 AM PST by jch10 (Media: prostitutes for the Democrat Party.)
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To: PBRCat

I can remember the sewage in the open ditches in Mexico.


3 posted on 01/13/2018 9:23:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: PBRCat

IE: Shi+hole!


4 posted on 01/13/2018 9:24:02 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: PBRCat

Just how much money does the world give the Haitians? Assuming it is a solid amount, what or who is preventing them from building a sewer system?


5 posted on 01/13/2018 9:24:12 AM PST by Toespi
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To: PBRCat
Literaĺly..
6 posted on 01/13/2018 9:24:21 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: PBRCat

No sewer system, not even a sh!thole?

Sad.


7 posted on 01/13/2018 9:24:32 AM PST by null and void ( The Martians fought global warming, all the plants died and the surface water froze solid....)
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Maybe they should get off the lazy asses and fit something ... there is no excuse for all this infrastructure to still be down, Dem efficiency as usual
8 posted on 01/13/2018 9:24:37 AM PST by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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A literal shithole. Imagine that.

Millions of Clinton Foundation dollars later, Haiti remains a shithole. Imagine that.

If Trump is going to be held accountable for his words, I’d like to know when the Clintons will be held accountable for their actions??


9 posted on 01/13/2018 9:26:17 AM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: PBRCat

And here I thought the Clinton Foundation had fixed Haiti.


10 posted on 01/13/2018 9:26:34 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: PBRCat

Yup- it’s a shithole.


11 posted on 01/13/2018 9:26:34 AM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: jch10

No, but they know a little about chit..cause they are definitely full of it.


12 posted on 01/13/2018 9:26:35 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: PBRCat

Port au prince. = $h!thole.


13 posted on 01/13/2018 9:26:45 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: null and void

Yep, can’t even afford a hole.


14 posted on 01/13/2018 9:27:46 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: Toespi

“what or who is preventing them from building a sewer system?”

Haitians mostly.

L


15 posted on 01/13/2018 9:28:31 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: jch10

16 posted on 01/13/2018 9:28:32 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: PBRCat

If the shit fits.


17 posted on 01/13/2018 9:28:58 AM PST by dfwgator
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http://www.hiddencancun.com/rivergirl/2008/05/27/mexico-smells-like-sht/


18 posted on 01/13/2018 9:30:42 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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There is room for another investigation. The Clintons have long involvement in Haiti, from the time of Aristide. They had their hand in Aristide’s pocket while he was in exile. They put him back in power, and magically people in Clinton’s inner circle wound up in control of the long distance service there netting millions per month.

Then there was the reconstruction fund that Clinton controlled, several billion that simply disappeared. Then there was reconstruction money that flowed through the Foundation. Some of it evidently made it into the pockets of their friends, the rest, who knows.

That seems to be separate from the several billions in State Department funds that simply disappeared.


19 posted on 01/13/2018 9:31:20 AM PST by marron
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Nice find. Bump.


20 posted on 01/13/2018 9:32:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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