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Help – at what price?

January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment

HAITI NEEDS all the help it can get, and everyone is talking the big talk, from Brangelina, Sandra Bullock and other stars pledging millions to help the island, to the Obama-Bush-Clinton plea for dollars to go to the island.

But what about hidden agendas? How will the United Nations and other feet on the ground cope with the lack of infrastructure and resulting distribution obstacles, security concerns? Most of all, how soon will the people stuck in devastation while politicians are fighting over logistics and a bigger say in what gets done, when?

Al Jazeera’s Inside Story asks: Has the world failed Haiti?


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