Yup, after 5 weeks and endless articles about how the world is rushing to help only 25% of the needs have been met.
In a word, FAILURE!
Combine this with the crisis in the European Union and you have the FAILURE of GLOBAL GOVERNMENT.
"In devastated Haiti, a wary look to the sky; With 1.2 million homeless, rainy season will add to miseries" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | February 20, 2010
A young resident of a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince stood amid a sea of the makeshift tents that aid officials say will offer little shelter during the upcoming rainy season. (Rodrigo Abd/ Associated Press)
Aid groups are intensifying calls for money and action before the rains arrive - and afterward.
Last week, Kim Bolduc, the United Nations humanitarian aid coordinator in Haiti, issued an urgent call to governments and other institutions to provide funding for shelters. About 270,000 people have received tents or plastic sheeting, but more than 1 million need them.
Oxfam officials in Haiti also fear diarrhea and other waterborne diseases could spread because of the poor drainage, crowding, and lack of latrines. They urged the government to quickly decide when and where to relocate the homeless, and called on the United States to provide stronger leadership for the hundreds of nonprofit agencies with operations in Haiti....
Like I said, failed.
But somehow we can operate bases of occupation in war zones, ever notice that, readers?
And that failing government can also say goodbye:
"Haiti official says land to be taken to build camps" by Associated Press | February 20, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says the government will appropriate land to build temporary camps for quake victims.
Temporary camps that become permanent, no doubt. Ask any Palestinian.
The decision is potentially explosive in a country where a small elite owns most of the land in and around the capital. That elite, a traditionally corrupting force in Haitian politics, has the power to bring down the government....
With HELP from the CIA, of course!
Haiti's Nightmare: the Cocaine Coup and the CIA Connection
Now you know for whom the Haitian elite work.
The Jan. 12 quake left 1.2 million homeless, about half of them in Port-au-Prince, meaning the government would need to find a total of at least 6,672 acres for quake survivors in the capital, where about a third of Haiti’s nearly 10 million people are concentrated along with the government and almost all industry.
Good luck on that one.
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Related: Slow Saturday Special: Haitians Head From the Hills
