Four years after earthquake, Haiti still in ruins

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/12/four-years-after-earthquake-haiti-still-in-ruins/



Four years after earthquake, Haiti still in ruins
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, January 12, 2014 6:57 EST

Four years after Haiti was hit by a violent earthquake, the dragging pace of reconstruction is nowhere more apparent than the capital, where its landmark presidential palace and cathedral remain in ruins.

Devastation caused by the January 12, 2010 disaster, which killed more than 250,000 people, is still felt keenly in Port-au-Prince, the capital of the Americas’ poorest country.

“We are going to press on the accelerator to advance the main projects, and Haitians will be proud of reconstruction,” Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe told the press Friday, presenting models of several public buildings that are under construction.

Faced with criticism over the slow rebuilding of administrative buildings, including the legislative palace, Lamothe called on Haitians to unite together.



unhappycamper comment: Haiti was just a US military photo op.




Google: marines+haiti+earthquake for the rest of the set.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Wonder what happened to all the $$ Bush and Clinton raised?

Our record in Haiti is shameful.