{"id":4896,"date":"2014-08-20T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T21:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:16:28","slug":"in-memory-of-yesenia-rodriguez-age-29-electrocuted-in-santo-domingo-chikungunya-in-the-dominican-republic-and-ebola-in-obamas-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/in-memory-of-yesenia-rodriguez-age-29-electrocuted-in-santo-domingo-chikungunya-in-the-dominican-republic-and-ebola-in-obamas-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Yesenia Rodriguez (age 29): electrocuted in Santo Domingo.  Chikungunya in the Dominican Republic and Ebola in Obama&#8217;s Africa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sc_g6ylUrUU?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4898\" alt=\"Yesenia Rodriguez Rep\u00fablica Dominicana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>On or about the 6th or 7th of July (2014) Yesenia Rodriguez was electrocuted by a high voltage electricity cable as she walked through the street coming from her house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The electricity on this street is free. \u00a0This street is located on the top of a large hill, or a small mountain, and is not a street that is listed by name on any map that I am aware of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Everyone who lives on the sides of the hill also has free electricity. The same can be said (free electric) for the other hills near this hill. \u00a0The water is also free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-muerto-morir-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4899\" alt=\"Yesenia Rodriguez Rep\u00fablica Dominicana muerto morir 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-muerto-morir-2014-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-muerto-morir-2014-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yesenia-Rodriguez-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-muerto-morir-2014.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tangled and weaved electricity cables or lines are everywhere and its just a part of life in these places. I&#8217;ve been shocked a number times and have connected power to my house on countless occasions when the cables came apart or burnt-out. \u00a0 Exposed power lines can be seen on the insides of every home in this area and its just a way of life. \u00a0 Its not like in the United States where little toys have sticker-labels warning little kids to not swallow the plastic toy (ridiculous).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here little kids just know not to touch electric wires in their house and outside in the street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Houses are built on top of each other and sometimes narrow cement walkways and stairways, 15 to 30 feet above the ground, interface with other houses, walkways and hills. \u00a0There are typically no railings or other protection. \u00a0If you fall off you could easily fall to your death, especially if you are a child. \u00a0 However, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">no one ever falls off not\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">even little kids at ages 4, 5 and 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That being said, sometimes accidents do happen in which no amount of skill, balance, insight or strength can save you from. \u00a0 If something breaks or malfunctions sometimes it may result in death and that is what happened to Yesenia Rodriguez last month (July, 2014).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On that very same day I walked, and also road my motorcycle, over the same high voltage cable that killed Yesenia. \u00a0 I did so many times throughout the course of that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Because daily life is not the same for all cultures and societies. \u00a0In the United States it may be, depending on where you live, more comfortable to spend your days primarily indoors (unless you work outdoors).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Most people here in this area are outside in the daytime, or at least intermittently. \u00a0Many people here go to bed late and wake early. \u00a0In between those times you&#8217;ll likely find them outside, several (and likely many more) times each day. \u00a0 It&#8217;s also invariably hot inside many houses here or the houses lack the breeze of the wind and often times can be filled with pesky mosquitoes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In any event, I was not electrocuted but Yesenia was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was there ten (10) minutes or so before she was electrocuted and I had just picked up (on my motorcycle) my surrogate son (he&#8217;s not my wife&#8217;s son either), age 5, (he sits between me and the handle bars) and we were off to collect a bit of money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Its raw capitalism here. \u00a0Products and services are swapped at every moment of the day and money is constantly changing hands. \u00a0 I&#8217;m not talking about anything illegal, I&#8217;m referring to simple products such as, though not limited to, a mop (which is called &#8216;swape&#8217; here, you say it in English like &#8216;swa-pay&#8217;, and its a Dominican, not Spanish, word made from the English words SWEEP and MOP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In any event, my surrogate son and I arrived back, with the motorcycle, about ten (10) minutes later and as is normal and not atypical, we passed pedestrians at just an inch of length without hurting, harming or offending them because that&#8217;s just the way people drive and walk here and to try to do it the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">American way<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">would only cause and accident (and it does), we soon noticed that something was wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are always crowds here but things looked different. \u00a0As we drove further in I parked the motorcycle and noted that there were black holes in the street which looked like they were the result of small explosions which had been ignited in the road through holes which were drilled first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I soon discovered that a power line (electricity) had blown up and electrocuted Yesenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She did not die though, she lived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For a number of days there was talk that her leg would need to be amputated. \u00a0News then followed that she would be able to keep the leg. \u00a0However, not long after it was then ascertained that the leg must go. \u00a0The leg had suffered much damage from the electrical jolt of the power line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The leg came off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Then on the 9th day of this month of August (2014), about a month after the electrocution, and at 29 years of age, her heart stopped and she died.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Very sad.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Up until Yesenia&#8217;s death I myself, and many others, were suffering from a virus called Chikungunya <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(or\u00a0Chikungu\u00f1a in Spanish).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chikungunya was one of more than a dozen agents the United States researched as potential\u00a0biological weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chikungunya is usually found in Africa and southeast Asia. \u00a0However, in April (2014) cases began being reported in the Dominican Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I developed a fever and my joints, particularly those in my hands, began to swell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then one day I woke and rose from my bed and I felt like (or at least what I imagined to be) a 100-years-old man. \u00a0 The muscles in my back felt as if I hadn&#8217;t stretched them in years. \u00a0I could only slightly move or walk. \u00a0 I began stretching\u00a0exercises immediately and told myself to man-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In many cases those who are infected with\u00a0Chikungunya develop a harsh rash on their skin. \u00a0My wife also became infected with\u00a0<strong><\/strong>Chikungunya and developed a savage and grating rash on her face, head, neck, back and chest and to a much more marginal degree on her arms and legs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The skin rash was like no other and a person sometimes developed small volcano-looking blisters on their skin. \u00a0A massive mountain of skin pushed upwards with a blister or blood at the tip of its precipice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I felt that I myself had lucked out because I did not develop a rash myself (not everyone shows outward signs of the rash segment related to the virus). \u00a0However, weeks later (Chikungunya can stay with you for months, and sometimes years) I broke out with the skin rash but mine, though somewhat uncomfortable, was more comparable to\u00a0Polymorphic light eruption (PMLE). \u00a0Something that people sometimes get from the sun. \u00a0 I refrained from itching it and, luckily, I didn&#8217;t turn my skin into a mass of bloody holes like many others have who were infected with Chikungunya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You read that\u00a0Chikungunya is spread by mosquitoes but almost everyone in the Dominican Republic will tell you that that is simply not true. \u00a0 Not just the unfortunate (who a great in number) who lack education but you&#8217;ll also hear it from attorneys, reporters, media staff, teachers, the churches, the pharmacies, bank employees, telephone operators, and computer programmers including front-end developers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What do they all say? \u00a0 They say that it the Chinese have spayed something in the air in the Dominican Republic which has caused the\u00a0Chikungunya outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Chinese are vital to the economy of the Dominican Republic as it is\u00a0the gateway for Chinese products to US and European markets. \u00a0 The Chinese have also invested a great deal of money in the Dominican Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you think\u00a0Chikungunya is spread by mosquitoes or is it something in the air (regardless of whether or not it put there by the Chinese )?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you&#8217;re an American this sort of stuff may likely sound somewhat crazy to you and you may be thinking of images of tinfoil hats and chemtrails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Did you know that similar things are happening in Africa? \u00a0 Not with\u00a0Chikungunya (Chikungunya is nothing new to most of Africa), but with Ebola.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Liberia word is being spread from community to community that doctors are spreading Ebola. \u00a0 Doctors are chased with machetes and sometime killed. \u00a0 \u00a0Many in western Africa are claiming that Ebola does not exist other than as a virus that doctors are spreading. \u00a0Its been reported that many patients are suffering only from Malaria until doctors arrive spreading some other sickness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have no personal experience with Ebola so I will not offer any comment here regarding the virus. \u00a0 I&#8217;m also not indicting that doctors are spreading Ebola or that Ebola doesn&#8217;t exists. \u00a0 I&#8217;m also not implying that\u00a0Chikungunya in not spread by mosquitoes nor am I implying that the Chinese have ever had anything to doing with helping the spread of\u00a0Chikungunya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What I can tell you is that once you leave the United States and enter places such as black Africa or black Latin America you soon, if you spend enough time there (and not at the tourist areas and not being lead around by past-their-prime losers who prey on dumb Americans), learn that mysterious,\u00a0inexplicable and impossible-like\u00a0things happen which are not capable of being explained in rational American terms and standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In black Africa and black Latin America curses are real things and people die as a result and their lives are destroyed. \u00a0 Witchery, a practice often interlaced with rituals and Saints of the Catholic Church, can kill, cause sickness and bring financial ruin to those who have been cursed. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen it with my own eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One particular case involves a child who was mistakenly cursed by an adult over jealously. \u00a0 Curses can be placed by acquiring coins, paper money and clothing \u00a0(but not food, although a curse can be passed by giving food to the intended victim) which has been previously handled by the intended victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The curse was placed on a child (as form of revenge, sort of) and the child was set to die in three (3) days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, an error or mistake occurred (e.g. a tangible item belonging to another child was used in the curse) and a friend of the intended child victim died three (3) days later. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There&#8217;s no evidence of murder, no perpetrator who stalks the victim in the night hours and hits them over the head or throws them over a cliff to their death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Typically, the victim just drops dead or becomes weak 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