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...TIME says, "We owe it to the survivors ... to help build a Haiti that will never again be so vulnerable" [Feb. 1]. Does this mean other nations can persuade the handful of families and businesses that control the wealth of Haiti to begin paying appropriate taxes? Does this mean Haitian leaders will direct foreign aid to health care facilities, water and sewage systems, education, job training and proper building construction? Or after this acute crisis has passed, will Haiti return to baseline poverty? The ethics of those who run this little country must change or be coerced to change. Seymour...
...single packet of cookies a day, splitting them between lunch and dinner. I also drank a lot of water, some coffee and a glass of fruit juice daily. (And, yes, I did note the irony that hundreds of thousands of quake survivors were going on the Haitian version of the Hollywood Cookie Diet, which has helped various celebrities fit into their skinny jeans...
...damaged residence overlooking the capital, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive asks the same question. Next month, he's going to New York City to convince donor nations like the U.S. that Haiti has a "good recovery action plan," one that "won't just rebuild what was destroyed but present the Haiti that we're all dreaming of" 10 years down the line, he tells TIME. Yet the only dream Haitians have right now is of something waterproof over their heads - shelter that their officials and foreign relief agencies seem unable to deliver in appreciable quantities more than a month...
...First they have to prove that they can work more efficiently on immediate postquake urgencies like temporary shelter. Port-au-Prince's roads and streets are passable now, many businesses are humming again and the vibrant color of Haitian food markets has begun to compete with the gray ocean of crushed concrete. But so far only about a quarter of the 1.2 million Haitians who lost homes have been given tents (which relief agencies argue are scarce right now on the global market) or plastic sheeting (which those agencies now say is more practical than tents). Sanitation is even scarcer...
...While it's hard to imagine the Haitian élite ceding its inordinate wealth and power to the grass roots in that process, Bellerive insists the government, like international donors, wants decentralization. Despite the recent creation of a federal reconstruction commission, he says, "much of the rebuilding authority has to go to mayors and local leaders if this is going to work." Asked if he expects to make Haiti a more democratic and functional country in the end, Bellerive says, "Government reform should be part of this process, not just a consequence...