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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disease; haiti; hellhole; sanitation; sewage
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To: PBRCat
Port-au-Prince is a sewer system.
41 posted on 01/13/2018 10:13:13 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: PBRCat

According to liberals, one of the main reasons we should allow more immigrants is that they are fleeing war, civil war, political oppression, disease, poverty, tyranny, and drug cartels? Isn’t that kind of like fleeing s***holes?


42 posted on 01/13/2018 10:15:23 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Toespi

A lot of that money was eaten up with administrative costs. Haiti does have a sewage system. It is called Haiti. We need compassionaate people like Sean Penn who are sick of the repressive U.S. to move there and improve the situation. No need to bend a knee during the Haitan national anthem. You knee might just land on something that doesn’t smell too good. Shithole is Newyorkese for a place that lacks luxuries like tiolot paper.


43 posted on 01/13/2018 10:18:24 AM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: PGR88

President Ulysses S. Grant mentioned in his memoirs that he wanted the US Congress to purchase the island of Santo Domingo (the same island where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are now) for the purpose of resettling freed slaves. His proposal was not acted upon.

Haiti was a French slave colony, but the rulers were greatly outnumbered by slaves and were overthrown in a revolution (1791-1804). Forty years later, the Spanish occupants rebelled and established their own government in the Dominican Republic.


44 posted on 01/13/2018 10:19:36 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

t should be remembered that two nations are based on the same island (separated by a mountain rande): Haiti and the Dominican Republic.


There is a really big difference between the two nations. The Haitians speak French (or a Creole).


45 posted on 01/13/2018 10:20:38 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Toespi

The middle man handling the money is getting wealthy.


46 posted on 01/13/2018 10:23:46 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: dfwgator

+1


47 posted on 01/13/2018 10:24:28 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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To: PBRCat

Are these places geographically prohibited from installing such a utility? If not, they are indeed shitholes. What other description could be used that would be more accurate? Is the language a bit course? Yes, but so what? It simply continues to allow the left to expose its hypocrisy and hate.


48 posted on 01/13/2018 10:26:51 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: PBRCat; All

“This is for the boys, this is for the teacher, and this is for the girls,” Elma says. “This is the first time they are using a toilet that smells so good.”


Oh oh.

Nothing for trannies or the 37 other varieties of “gender”?

They are going to be in trouble with the SJWs!/S


49 posted on 01/13/2018 10:30:19 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: dsrtsage
#26: "then turn Haiti into an island paradise

Anyone who thinks genes don't matter, need only look to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic has a vibrant economy attributable to beautiful resorts, and an industrious populace, all anchored with a solid manufacturing base, particularly in clothing and textiles. GDP growth rate is the highest in the Western Hemisphere, and has been averaging about 7% per year, truly phenomenal.

Comparing the Dominican Republic to Haiti is comparing Rodeo Drive to the slums of Detroit. Interestingly there is no "refugee" problem with the Dominican Republic. And the Dominican Republic is hard core in securing its border with Haiti. Needless to say, any Haitian sauntering over across that border is dealt with severely.

Same island, same climate. Different outcomes. — a perfect controlled experiment. One country is the gem of the Caribbean, the other is a third world shi+hole.
 

50 posted on 01/13/2018 10:31:15 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: dfwgator

TWO COMMENTS

#1 - Girl on the right is butt-ugly

#2 - Chelsea has never looked go good


51 posted on 01/13/2018 10:34:10 AM PST by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: PBRCat

There are millions of illegals in America that are great wealth creators and workers. Haiti is poor and needs it infra structure built up. Is anyone else thinking what I am thinking?


52 posted on 01/13/2018 10:36:42 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: hanamizu

That’s true. The Spanish rebelled after forty years of corrupt mismanagement by the Creoles, who had overthrown the French, and founded their own nation on the opposite side of the island which is not as nearly depressed and backwards. The Dominican Republican is hardly a paradise, but it much better than the hell that is Haiti.


53 posted on 01/13/2018 10:37:05 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: Toespi

With all the millions/billions given to Haiti over the years, it should be a tropical paradise by now. The church I attend, as well as, many other churches, send people, medical help, supplies and money to Haiti many times a year — year after year, after year, and it never gets better.


54 posted on 01/13/2018 10:44:59 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: dfwgator

On the left is the Haiti I remember. Hasn’t changed. It makes Calcutta (or Kolkata if preferred) look like Palm Springs. On the right, ouch! Better use a spinner lure.


55 posted on 01/13/2018 10:46:41 AM PST by katana
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To: Polyxene

Farmers and Doctors can’t compete with free food and free medical care.

The Foreign Aid creates a permanent Cycle of Dependency.

Frankly, the only solution would be to colonize Haiti for a period of twenty years, build the infrastructure and then turn it over to the Haitians. Yes, it would be expensive, but at least the money we’re throwing at them would actually improve the quality of life. But of course it will never happen.


56 posted on 01/13/2018 10:49:53 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Toespi

The middle man handling the money is getting wealthy.


57 posted on 01/13/2018 11:00:52 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: PBRCat

This is one of those times when I wish Trump wasn’t right, at least in the literal sense. Haiti is literally a sh*thole.


58 posted on 01/13/2018 11:04:58 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year! Screeeeewwwww 2017!)
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To: dfwgator

Whaaaaaat? Chelsea’s not wearing her upside-down cross in that pic?


59 posted on 01/13/2018 11:05:51 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year! Screeeeewwwww 2017!)
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To: PBRCat
A few weeks ago someone posted an article about eighteenth century Boston and how its outhouse pits are historic gold mines. Back then, before Boston had a sewage system, local ordinances required each outhouse to have a pit at least six feet deep. That means eighteenth century Boston had more advanced sanitation than modern Haiti.
60 posted on 01/13/2018 11:25:00 AM PST by libstripper
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