A New Future for Haiti?

Posted by: Tim Halbur

25 January 2010 - 1:00pm

Raymond Joseph, Haitian ambassador to the U.S., sees the opportunity to build a smaller, better city from the ruins.

From McClatchy:

"There is a silver lining," Raymond Joseph said. "What was not politically possible, was done by the earthquake. We will rebuild differently. ... The future of Haiti will be very different from the past."

Andres Viglucci and Scott Hiaasen write, "Will it? Only if the Haitian government and the international community manage to overcome long-standing obstacles of poverty and poor governance that have dogged the country for decades."

Full Story: Starting from scratch in Haiti's Port-au-Prince ruins

Source: The Seattle Times, January 25, 2010