THE BOMB: Haiti

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What is THE BOMB?

ⓣechnology Gap

ⓗealth and Disease

ⓔducation Gap



ⓑad Government

ⓞverpopulation

ⓜilitary Conflict

ⓑad Geography

So Essentially............ THE BOMB stands for the different characteristics and challanges of poor countries.

THE BOMB in Haiti

【нαιтι нαѕ suffered through many different tragedies that have weakened the government, the economy, and all possible forms of growth in the nation. Tragedies that have ranged from the merciless, heartless, and blood-thirsty reign of the dicator Trujillo from 1930 to 1961, a man who sought to purge the world of dark-skinned Haitians and murdered more than 50,000 people, to the 7.0 earthquake in 2010 that slaughtered at least 250,000 people and left one out of nine million people homeless and living in tents. Trujillo can be blamed for the bad government and military conflict that is precedent in Haiti today, but the earthquake can be blamed for the rest of the issues that keeps Haiti so poor. Haiti already had poor sanitation with open sewers and people selling food laid out on blankets in mud (which invites the flies tht have already been mucking about in the sewers to come and spread diseases onto the food), but add an earthquake to distrupt the already disease inflicting chaos and you have a violent outbreak of the cholera. According to the article Haiti, One Year Later by Nicholas D. Kristof, more than 2,000 people have died of cholera and it is estimated by the Pan American Health Organisation that 400,000 more Haitians may get cholera over the next year (2011).】

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