Six months is too long, it’s time we do better by Haiti

Before the earthquake, Haiti was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Today, it appears to be the poorest country in the world.

PORTE-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—Recently, several of my constituents asked me to visit Haiti to see international relief efforts after the devastating earthquake which rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. The earthquake, a magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale, left an estimated 230,000 people dead, 300,000...

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