Since January 12, 2010 Haiti has not seen the same thing.
Approximately to the fifth of the day of this day, a plot of 7 degrees on the scale of Richter dejo to Puerto Príncipe, the capital, reduced to exchange. The official figures show more than 300,000 deaths, 350,000 deaths and at least 1.5 million people losing their lives, out of a total of 2.1 million injured.
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The catastrophe abreast of the plagues of one of the most miserable countries in the world and evidently institutional failures so profound that, 11 years after the tragedy, the Haitians were not fully recovered.
It is estimated that 65 per cent of Haiti’s metropolitan infrastructure will be destroyed by the 2010 earthquake.
What did you change?The President
René Préval is the president who, when he took office, the term that truncated all his intentions to bring about the economy, the objective of his periods in power (he had a first term in 2001 and was elected in 2006).
Of all modes, Preval logró culminates in the period in 2011. After signing Michel Martelly, who, in 2016, passed the baton to the Council of Ministers. For what reason? The 2015 elections to elect his successor were declared invalid debit and fraud charges against Jovenel Moïse, which he has won.
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The Council alone lasted a week in power, and Jocelerme Privert declared himself interim president in order to bring about a political crisis.
In November 2016, the presidential comics will be repeated by the newcomer Jovenel Moïse, who took up the position in 2017.
Since July 2018, when the legislative elections will be held indefinitely, Haiti is facing a socio-political and economic crisis without precedents, with demonstrations, some of the violence, and repeated allegations of Moses’ death, implicated in cases of corruptionn, following the Superior Tribunal of Cents.
There are many months, the climate of insecurity in Haiti is recruiting, with an increase in criminals, robots, assassinations, violations and, above all, armed attacks on people living in high barriers.
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The social discontinuation took place in another episode on July 7, when Moses announced that the country would celebrate, possibly in April, a constitutional referendum, in addition to presidential, legislative and local elections.The opposition creates that the referendum is a strategy of the current president to extend his mandate and convene protests for the finals of January.
The economy and the hambre
According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), after the 2010 earthquake, Haiti’s GDP is up 7%.
Since then, the World Bank has reported that “Haiti’s economic growth has been weak, with a GDP increase of only 1.3% between 2015 and 2018”.
It is estimated that by 2020, 6% of the Haitian population, or 6.3 million people, will be poor and 24% will find themselves in an extreme poverty situation, that is to say, approximately 2.5 million people do not have access to basic services such as education, health, water and education.
And it’s the subsidy policy that has been lifted since the earthquake that “very, very practically, the commodity that is consumed in Haiti is imported, including products such as sugar and rice, which are produced without the need for imports”. ..) Pwe hope that the international community will propose that Haiti does not allow itself to be subjected to an exhaustive experiment and that it should have realized that this objective is being pursued ”, le aseguró en 2020 a ‘BBC Mundo’ Robert Fatton, professor van die Universidad de Virginia (en Estados Unidos) en author de varias investigaciones sobre Haití.
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Pero the imports of comedy tampoco and logrado combat the hambre. According to the NGO Action against the Hamburger, “more than the average Haitian population has chronic food insecurity (no food available) and 22% of the children suffer from chronic malnutrition”.
In 2019, the Organization of the United Nations calculated that 40% of Haitians would need an emergency humanitarian aid in the present year.It was created that the covid-19 pudo haber hecho mucho peor the reality that the prognostic.
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The greeting
One of the most important securities of the earthquake was to install a sanitary system that was precarious for itself, the Medical Doctors and Frontiers (MSF).
Javier Fernández, project coordinator of this organization in Martissant, a barrier of Puerto Príncipe with high indexes of violence, denounced in ‘EFE’, in 2020, that the situation “did not improve” in a decade.
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Although the means of confinement over the pandemic, which reigned last June, are hiccuping in the Haitian economy, the new virus has not caused the human losses that live in other countries: according to the OMS, has accumulated more than 10,000 confirmed cases and 230 deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
The ‘AA’ news agency explained, in December 2020, that the reason for the basic mortality rate was not clear, but it must be said that the majority of the population is young (more than 50% of people are under 23 years old).
It is worth noting that even though the 2010 term is the most difficult year in which the Caribbean country has lived in recent years, social, economic and political problems have been growing for decades.
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Among the hechos who have not been quoted in Haitian history It is a great honor to know that France has its own colony, the influence in its territory of the state politics during the XX century and the dictatorships of François Duvalier and his wife Jean-Claude, which lasted from 1964 until 1986 in the power, Fatton explains in the article on ‘BBC Mundo’.
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* With EFE Y AFP information.