NARRATIVE – 15 years ago, an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, destroying tens of thousands of homes. Today, however, no significant commemoration will commemorate the disaster. The chaos reigning in the country has relegated this earthquake to the status of a simple bad memory.
An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Haitians on January 12, 2010 at 5 p.m. The toll will prove to be of a terrifying scale with more than 280,000 dead, 3,000,000 injured and 1.3 million homeless. Very quickly, all health infrastructures were saturated, with most hospitals becoming unusable. In a country where no anti-seismic standards are applied, the toll of destruction is terrifying: almost all of the buildings in Port-au-Prince are affected. The National Palace, the presidential residence, Notre-Dame Cathedral, and the Central Hospital were destroyed.
Most administrative buildings are reduced to a pile of rubble: the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Communication and Culture, the Ministry of Posts, the Parliament, the courthouse, the central prison, the universities and the schools. State institutions, already fragile, are reduced to powerlessness having lost their staff…
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