The US can’t keep treating Haiti’s cycle of traumas with Band-Aid solutions


Step up: Haiti needs Haitian American builders, entrepreneurs and investors to break through the poverty cycle.— AP

IT was haunting, perhaps more so after our own Surfside (condo collapse) tragedy in Miami, to see Haitian men lifting big chunks of rubble with their bare hands to reach survivors.

No gloves, no equipment, only superhuman efforts in those critical hours, and beyond, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti last Saturday, bringing new devastation to the poorest country in the hemisphere.

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