Goldberg titles his article, "Haiti's Tourniquet Isn't Healing the Wound." I found Goldberg's facts surprising:
Ninety-five percent of the debris from the Haitian earthquake of one year ago hasn’t been moved.
In other words, billions of dollars later, with none other than Bill Clinton serving as the foreman for a massive international cleanup and reconstruction effort, most of the country pretty much looks exactly the way it did when dust and screams still filled the air.
I hadn't realized there had been so little progress. Apparently none at all. Then there's this item:
To get a sense of Haiti’s dysfunction, Fox News’s Steve Harrigan reports that some 64 brand-new trucks donated after the earthquake by the United States to be used by aid organizations remain parked at the airport. A pparently nobody will pay the steep import tax on the vehicles, so they sit idle, overgrown with weeds.
Most everything in this article on Haiti is depressing. Read the whole thing.