she be a Pirate wench arrrrrrrrr from the fabled isle of Tortuga, where a Amazoness tribe (wo)man a privateer galleon, pillaging and plundering every French and Spanish merchant ship in the 5 seas... they have the Auspices of Elizabeth and answer to no man.... (not yet at least )
It's possible scienceandprogress hasn't heard of what happened there. A friend of mine recently got back after being out of the US for two months and the Haiti situation came as a complete surprise to him. Some places haven't given it much coverage. But that's me assuming a best-case scenario for our friend here :|