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PATRICK ELIE, a former Haitian minister comments on the arrival of thousands of armed marines from the USA who were flown in 5 days after the earthquake. Instead of shipping in water, food, aid workers and medicine it was deemed appropriate by the USA to send armed soldiers to a situation that required humanitarian aid. This was not a war zone, this was a disaster zone. The airport is under USA authority, effectively it approves and controls everything that lands in Haiti. American citizens have donated $137 million to the American Red Cross since this disaster struck on January 12th, 2010. Jacmel Airport has opened and is flying in Canadian Military Forces with aid supplies. 1,400 aid planes are reported to be waiting to land.
Some context to Haiti before the earthquake is available here:
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Haiti is the poorest society in the Western Hemisphere, high crime rate, drug cartels, abject poverty for the majority of the population with minimal chances of improvement unless serious financial aid is offered by overseas aid in all its functional forms.
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