The interventions in Haiti post-earthquake are an embarrassment and a tragedy. The massive outpouring of money was largely sucked up by the salaries and comforts of the administration of parasitic NGOs, governments' main provision was armed troops, and imported food aid decimated local agriculture.

Here are years of too much detail:

http://cepr.net/blogs/haiti-relief-and-reconstruction-watch/

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The group’s failures went beyond just infrastructure.

When a cholera epidemic raged through Haiti nine months after the quake, the biggest part of the Red Cross’ response — a plan to distribute soap and oral rehydration salts — was crippled by "internal issues that go unaddressed," wrote the director of the Haiti program in her May 2011 memo.

Throughout that year, cholera was a steady killer. By September 2011, when the death toll had surpassed 6,000, the project was still listed as “very behind schedule” according to another internal document.

The Red Cross said in a statement that its cholera response, including a vaccination campaign, has continued for years and helped millions of Haitians.

But while other groups also struggled early responding to cholera, some performed well.

“None of these people had to die. That’s what upsets me," said Paul Christian Namphy, a Haitian water and sanitation official who helped lead the effort to fight cholera. He says early failures by the Red Cross and other NGOs had a devastating impact. “These numbers should have been zero."

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...