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New Orleans - drowned in lies

Anyone in any doubt about what really happened in the catastrophe after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 should read Rebecca Solnit's article in The Guardian today. I'm not talking about the hurricane devastation but the aftermath, when the authorities and the media reported a descent into looting and lawlessness that was pure fiction - lies.

I mention it because I still come across people in the travel industry repeating this rubbish - even some of those selling or representing the US. Obviously they can't have seen Spike Lee's documentary When the Levees Broke. Rebecca Solnit, by the way, is the author of a beautiful book - Savage Dreams - that marries a history of America's National Parks with that of the Los Alamos nuclear test site in New Mexico. I recommend it.

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