Haiti Reconstruction? Not So Much

Two years after a devastating earthquake, Haiti is struggling to rebuild its ravaged buildings and hundreds of thousands of victims remain homeless.

The 7.0 magnitude quake on January 12, 2010, lasted only a few seconds but killed around 300,000 people and left more than 1.5million without homes.

Since then, however, reconstruction has been painfully slow, with squalid tent camps housing more than a half a million people in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

(Full story, with photos, here). The article doesn't get into much detail on why reconstruction has been slow, but corruption and incompetence probably play a large role--that is, after all, why the country was in such a bad state prior to the earthquake.

It bears a strong reminder that, after a disaster, you shouldn't expect help from the government.