Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Louisiana Confronts Realization That 'the Water's Not Going Anywhere'

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Sitting on his porch in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Otis Tucker cuts a lone figure on a street punctuated with large empty spaces — the shadows of homes lost to Hurricane Katrina. Tucker lives in the part of the Louisiana city most devastated by the powerful storm and its aftermath in 2005, when levees designed to protect the city from flooding failed. Many residents of the poor neighborhood have struggled to return after fleeing Katrina. Lack of funds to come home and...

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