than 7,050 haitians and affected more than 500,000. this is particularly troubling in a country with no prerecorded cases of haiti it began outside the quake zone in central haiti, and is linked to united nations aid workers by scientists who studied the epidemic. u.n. peace keeping troops from nepal imported cholera to haiti and one theory, they contaminated the river next to their base through a faulty sanitation system, causing the virus to spread. now, wraeched out to the u.n. and they told us that a panel of independent scientific experts were appointed last year to study the outbreak and last may they determined three things. it was not possible to be conclusive about how cholera was introduced into haiti, the cholera outbreak was caused by a
this? it doesn t look like there is effort to rebuild. greta: you have to have an infrastructure, a government. and an economy. the hope here, people want to work. they want to be able to contribute to rebuilding this country. not having the opportunity because of what government is doing with corruption within the government. with contracts that are met where no knows where the money ends up but it is not getting to the people and the infrastructure that needs fixing. greta: it almost looks normal, people having jobs. you go out and people living in displaced tents, no sanitation system or at least it didn t appear to be. no jobs, no future, no help, cholera. a few inches before beyond this airport, a little bit normal here. this is a hop, skip and judgment from the united states of america. from what hop, skip and a
this? it doesn t look like there is effort to rebuild. greta: you have to have an infrastructure, a government. and an economy. the hope here, people want to work. they want to be able to contribute to rebuilding this country. not having the opportunity because of what government is doing with corruption within the government. with contracts that are met where no knows where the money ends up but it is not getting to the people and the infrastructure that needs fixing. greta: it almost looks normal, people having jobs. you go out and people living in displaced tents, no sanitation system or at least it didn t appear to be. no jobs, no future, no help, cholera. a few inches before beyond this airport, a little bit normal here. this is a hop, skip and judgment from the united states of america. from what hop, skip and a
wealth neighborhood out of nothing. exactly. we still have open sewers and no pavement but we have recoco castles. that went for $10,000 to $25,000 a month because it s a safe area. but here s the irony. most of the government officials, these are almost all owned by government officials, don t live in them. they rent them out to foreign companies, contractors, and they live in dubai or have their families in islamabad so they are purely investment properties. a sign right there on that one, house for rent. exactly. and the reason the streets are still unpaved is that these government officials refuse to pay any taxes to the government. they re in a fight so the government won t come and pave the roads or connect it to any kind of sanitation system at all, because the same government ministers won t pay to register the neighborhood. so they won t throw their weight around to get their neighborhood taken care of, despite that fact, because they
the roads or connect it to any sanitation system at all because the same government ministers won t pay to register the neighborhood. so they won t throw their weight around to get their neighborhood taken care of despite that fact because they don t live here anyway? they don t live here anyway. you have large homes, see this building behind you that looks like a hotel. no. no. no. they are all private homes. this is a private home? it is a prifl home. it probably had 25 bedrooms, garish, colonnades and unusual architectural features. they will rent that out to the western client and charge by the bedroom or by the floor or for the whole thing. this one is under construction that is a $1 million plus house in kabul with no paved streets. america, your tax dollars at work. this is the war economy as translated to landlock central asia. we dump ton of money thinking we are paying for our military effort.