Haiti, the UN and cholera on election day
Originally Posted on: Rabble.ca Posted on: November 28th, 2010 Original link: http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/11/haiti-un-and-cholera-election-day Haiti, the UN and cholera on election day By: Kevin Edmonds Rabble.ca November 28th, 2010 My third day in Haiti, walking down Avenue John Brown in the center of Port-au-Prince I was confronted point blank with the desperation of the cholera situation. On the side of the road, a shirtless man with brown pants and no shoes lay on the sidewalk outside a busy market entrance -- eyes open, with his arm in the gutter and flies buzzing around his face. He was dead. A couple photographers quickly snapped photos and jumped back into their vehicles as the ambulance crew arrived to pick up the body. He was another victim of an outbreak which will only kill the poor and the vulnerable -- which unfortunately makes Haiti a deadly conductor for the spread of the disease. Despite denials by the United Nations and the Nepalese army, the cholera ou