One year after the earthquake that
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On January 12, 2010 at 16:53, 20 seconds at most have been sufficient to reduce Port-au-Prince and its region in ruins. Besides the 250,000 dead, the quake of magnitude 7 degrees has more than 300,000 wounded and one and a half million homeless, making it one of the most devastating urban disasters in history.
Despite the pledges, the presence of 12,000 peacekeepers and an army of aid workers, the streets of the capital are littered with debris and a million victims are still living in makeshift camps.
Worse, the
Nike Dunks Mid poorest country in the Western world, located less than two hours flight from the United States, is now struggling with a cholera epidemic, coupled with an ominous political crisis, while Reconstruction projects are slow to sprout.
Faced with this failure, many people who question the capacity of the international community to cope with a disaster of this magnitude.
The spirit of solidarity that followed the quake caused the recognition of many Haitians, but their optimism has not withstood the facts.
"When we travel the
nike dunk country and (camps) of tents and you see the situation in which people find themselves a year after the disaster, it's hard to imagine how this money was spent," observes Jean-Mackenzy Francis, a student of 25 who lives in Port-au-Prince.
Several celebrities, including actor Sean Penn, have denounced this situation. Fidel Castro has said that Haiti had been "abandoned to his fate" and some humanitarian organizations directly involved will also show very critical.
Engulfment
In a report published on January 6, Britain's Oxfam and J. reconstruction operations "dead" and deplores a stalemate due, she says, the indecisiveness of the government of Haiti, the fact that rich countries often prefer their own priorities and the erasure of the committee responsible for aid coordination, co-led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Unni Karunakara, president of Doctors Without Borders expressed outrage at the international level for the failure of the humanitarian system face an epidemic of cholera that has claimed more than 3,600 dead.
"Some may see a glass half empty. I see it as half full," replied indirectly Pamela Cox, Vice-President of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean.
"I think the frustration comes from the fact that today, people want quick solutions (...) The reconstruction is not a quick process," she said in an interview with Reuters.
Citing "a problem of interpretation", Carleen Dei, who directs the operations of the American agency USAID in Haiti, finds it necessary to distinguish the immediate reaction, which she says "very, very smoothly,"
Nike Free 3.0 the process much long and complex reconstruction.
Four million Haitians have received food aid and emergency shelters have been distributed to 1.5 million victims, argues the UN.
"Everyone recognizes that this is the biggest urban disaster of all time, hitting a country already bottom of the list in
Vibram 5 Fingers all statistics, whether health, the education, agriculture or infrastructure, "said Carleen Dei.
Despite his optimism, Pamela Cox is alarmed that only half of the 5.3 billion dollars pledged in March by the international community appears in the budgets of donor countries.
"We are on the first
Vibram Five Fingers Sprint anniversary, we would also see the second half to happen," she said.
Aftermath of Earthquake adds the threat of electoral unrest. The first round of presidential elections held on November 28 in contentious conditions led to violent demonstrations. Supporters of Michel Martelly, rejected the second round for less than 7,000 votes, shouted to manipulation. The second round scheduled on January 16 was postponed to February.
