Haiti

The Nature is bountiful, powerful, sometimes marvelously hospitable and other times extremely inhospitable. But we cannot ask him to be just not that it is compassionate or united. The other way round, it tends to be arbitrary and cruel. That's why, it is sterile and hypocritical to complain that the natural disasters are fattened in the poorest places, in the countries that for his economic penury and his institutional weakness are in worse conditions to prepare them and to face to his consequences.

It is not a fault of the Nature that in the heart of the civilized world, in the middle of a few extraordinarily benevolent climatic conditions and to scarce kilometers of the most prosperous and developed society of the world, exists a place as Haiti. A place in which the people live in conditions of penury and misery that none of those that this text is reading might ever accept for himself or for his dear beings. A place in which the human life lacks any value; in that practically the State does not exist anything that does not even do his functions, although yes the most bloodthirsty dictatorships have been frequent. And a place in which there does not exist any of the material, sanitary means and of all kinds that they might allow to his inhabitants to face a disaster as the earthquake that they have just suffered trying to limit at least the damages.

We already know what it has to do when the news us realizes of an earthquake like that of Haiti and the victims are counted by hundreds of thousands: to sympathize and to help. We are doing two things. But that does not exempt us from our responsibility allows to us to avoid it complaining of unjust that is the Nature, which always strikes more dweebs. This is, for saying it gently, a cynical argument. Precisely in this area of the world the Nature has created a few exceptionally favorable conditions for a prosperous, pleasant and pleasant human life. And we have been the human beings, with our own hands, which we have made possible that in this place so poor societies exist, so infradotadas and so vulnerable as that of Haiti.

The problem, then, is not what we are doing in these days to help the Haitians who are still lucky to be able to be helped. The problem is everything what we have done earlier – and what we have stopped doing - so that a place that for his natural conditions might be a paradise is in fact slightly very similar to a hell, earlier and after the earthquake.

All those who daily protest and complain about the resources that devote themselves to the international cooperation and to the politics of help to the desarrrollo, considering them to be a superfluous philanthropy – and it is necessary to see the quantity of demagogy that is done in this respect, especially in moments of economic difficulties like the current ones - they lack moral force to cry out now so that the rich countries get overturned in the help the victims of the earthquake. Two or three weeks will happen, they will eliminate the most dramatic images of our TV sets and they will return to his familiar topics of teniendo-aquÝ-el-paro-que-tenemos-para-quÚ-nos-tenemos-que-gastar-el-dinero-en-ayudar-a-otros.

In fact, the Mother nature limits herself to fulfilling his function: it kills us and gives us the life, gives us the life and kills us. Everything else is our matter.