Nothing Can Be Improvised in Haiti (Fidel Castro)

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... Haiti has an area of 27 750 square kilometers and, according to some reliable estimates, in the year 2009 the population reached the figure of 9 million inhabitants. The number of inhabitants per square kilometer of arable land has increased to 885, one of the highest in the world, without the existence of any industrial development or resources that would allow it to acquire a minimum amount of material goods indispensable for life.

Fifty three per cent of the population lives in the countryside; firewood and charcoal are the only household fuels available to most Haitian families, which hinders reforestation. The absence of forests, where the soil gets spongy with the leaves, twigs and roots and helps to retain water, facilitates the human and economic damages that heavy rains cause to neighborhoods, roads and crops. Hurricanes, as is known, cause significant additional damage which will be ever greater if the climate keeps on changing so quickly. This is a secret to no one ...

What matters the most is the creation of new forms of cooperation, so much in need by this selfish world ... Far more important than the resources that could be mobilized by the international community, are the human beings that make use of those resources ... http://www.radionuevitas.co.cu/web_english/news/cuba_250509_1.asp