| Publication |
2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In September 1994, the Caribbean nation of Haiti burst into political unrest that
drove twenty-six thousand migrants out to sea on board overcrowded and unseaworthy craft in an unprecedented mass migration to the United States. Several
months later, over thirty thousand Cubans followed suit, attempting to reach the
mainland on literally anything that could float. On 31 August 2005, a "weapon of
mass destruction" in the form of a category-five hurricane exploded in the Gulf
coast city of New Orleans, killing over 1,300 citizens and forcing the evacuation
of tens of thousands. Finally, on 20 April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon exploratory oil rig exploded, heralding an unprecedented environmental disaster whose
final impact has yet to be determined.
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