Ilio's Odyssey
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How does the average Haitian survive in those meager living conditions? More often than not, this is the question I’m asked by some of my foreign friends. It is almost surreal for them to underst...
6 months ago | 2 | 9 |
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In the famous Patrick Henry’s speech: “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death,” he eloquently said that it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope, referring to the hope that the coloni...
8 months ago | 2 | 12 |
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Hope is in the air, at least that’s what some Haitians are feeling with Michel Martelly as the new president. We are an optimistic people by nature, and resilient by force, but in the wake of all...
15 months ago | 0 | 10 |
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Leadership does not guarantee success, but good leadership can inspire people to do the unthinkable. At a crossroad between development and total failure, Haiti is reeling to find a way towards pro...
15 months ago | 0 | 11 |
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I saw the news of a potential cholera outbreak on my twitter feed late on Wednesday, October 20th. Immediately, I knew it would not be a simple case of isolated infections. It is obvious that many...
15 months ago | 0 | 12 |
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The saying goes like this, “An Ayiti moun pa mouri kòz natirel,” in Haiti there is no such thing as natural death. According to some people, every death in Haiti can almost be traced to some sort o...
16 months ago | 0 | 9 |
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Last week, I wrote about the urgent need to stop financing failing methodologies in Haiti. I elaborated on the fact that many of the actors currently involved in the reconstruction of Haiti are pr...
16 months ago | 0 | 12 |
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Haiti is a broken country, this is an obvious statement, but fixing it seems to be a problem worthy of a Nobel Prize. It is so broken that even the simplest of tasks cannot be accomplished. For ex...
19 months ago | 0 | 15 |
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There is almost a generalized consensus that reviving the Haitian agriculture would be a pivotal factor in Haiti’s progress, as it tries to rebuild itself. Monsanto, one of the first foreign compan...
20 months ago | 0 | 13 |
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As a little boy, I used to wonder of all the countries in the world why was I born in Haiti. I grew up with a cousin who is about the same age as I am, and each time we would look in the sky and se...
20 months ago | 1 | 14 |
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It is time that everyone faces up the new reality of Haiti. Things are probably going to get a lot worst before any improvement is made. The earthquake is not responsible for all that we are witnes...
21 months ago | 0 | 15 |
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Four months after the earthquake, many are still asking, where is the Haitian government? At the end of March, with the talk of raising funds for the reconstruction of the country and without much ...
21 months ago | 0 | 16 |
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Last week, I wrote a piece suggesting that the Haitian government find a way to institute a tax system on the Haitian diaspora. As much as I am aware that this would not be an easy feat, nor would ...