Haiti earthquake: Angry crowds bemoan lack of government response

The streets of Port-au-Prince are teeming with people. Entire swaths of the city are full of residents, carrying empty water containers, watching neighbors dig out their relatives still buried in rubble, or camping out in plazas and sidewalks and city squares.

One thing that is sorely missing on the scene: the Haitian government.

International firefighters and paramedics have cordoned off recovery sights and are busily trying to rescue ... Full Story »

Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Google News (Haiti), Christian Science Monitor, Google News (World)

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Richard Riehl
2.8
by Richard Riehl - Jan. 18, 2010

Interviewing a few desperate people does not a good news story make. In disasters like this one it's always easy to blame the government. The story could have been improved had government officials been interviewed.

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