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Haiti: Four Years After the 'Quake, Progress Buried In Political RubbleOn Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter just west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, struck Haiti with devastating impact – about 250,000 dead, more than 300,000 injured, about 294,000 properties destroyed, and almost 2 million made homeless.International aid and support p...

Haiti: Four Years After the 'Quake, Progress Buried In Political Rubble

On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter just west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, struck Haiti with devastating impact – about 250,000 dead, more than 300,000 injured, about 294,000 properties destroyed, and almost 2 million made homeless.

International aid and support personnel poured into the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation to assist with relief efforts and to help rebuild. But four years after the catastrophe, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are stuck in dire circumstances, their situation and living conditions showing little if any improvement.

Kim Ives, a prizewinning documentarian and editor of Haïti Liberté, a news weekly serving the Haitian diaspora, discusses what has – and has not – happened to the people of Haiti over the past four years.

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