Re: haiti etc.
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net> Subject: Re: haiti etc. Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:05:13 -0600 > No rum punches at the tropical bar for me, it has been a > working trip. Rhum Barbancourt is a world-class finest rum that I would not consider anything but drinking straight, or on rock. Not for everyone, but rum drinkers rate it very highly. If you figure out a way to help out that poor nation as a photographer, please share that with us. > The media is helping to scare people away with all the > stories of unrest and then even less help comes this way. Of course corporate media will not tell you about wonderful life outside ______ (fill in your country name). Internet is great about this. I have never been to Haiti, but it is so intriguing because all the common sense of the world does not seem to apply there. The entire consumer economy running on a fictitious currency, Haitian dollar, with all the price tags in it, although everyone pays cash in the official currency, goud or gourde. I also read that there is no tourism in Haiti, there is no map, and so you have no option than hiring a bilingual guide/driver if you want to go there, but then they are quite expensive. I wonder how you manage to travel there. > UN is alive and well here it seems, keeping order. From > Chile mostly.... So are you staying in P-au-P? I heard a lot of Bangladeshi soldiers there, too. -- Ryuji Suzuki "The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file." (Bob Dylan, Something's Burning Baby, 1985)
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