HLTH260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Structural Violence
9 Jul 2019
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For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded, i mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. O that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that i might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Kay, a community of fewer than fifteen hundred people, stretches along an unpaved road that cuts north and east into haiti"s central plateau. Striking out from port-au-prince, the capital, it can take several hours to reach kay. The journey gives one an impression of isolation, insularity. The impression is misleading, as the village owes its existence to a project conceived in the. Haitian capital and drafted in washington, d. c. : kay is a settlement of refugees, substantially composed of peasant farmers displaced more than thirty years ago by haiti"s largest dam. Before 1956, the village of kay was situated in a fertile valley, and through it ran the riviere.
