San Pedro Sula In a little more than two hours from Houston, I landed at the smallish airport of this city of almost a million which is the second largest in Honduras and the industrial capital of the country. The Sula Valley is dotted with one huge fenced and barbed wired maquila plant after another, …
Category: International
Advocating Squatting in Haiti
New Orleans Here’s an interesting twist on the Haitian disaster where 3 million people may now be homeless and essentially living as refugees in their own homes and country: support squatters’ rights. A least that’s the argument made as one of the rebuilding contributions on the op-ed page of the New York Times today by …
Disasters for the Haitian Poor
New Orleans The Haitian non-relief story is heartbreaking: unknown, unnamed victims in mass graves and $100 per day picking up dead bodies in the street. What can we make of the future from this catastrophe just off our shores? A Smith College professor named Kevin Rozario with a book about disasters in his resume actually …