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by EliRivers
5985 days ago
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Let's say that I don't want to be safer, and choose to live dangerously. I have no interest in comparing the number of people injured in each. I am not looking at this stage for context. I want to have an absolute comparison - has the U.S. been better organised in their Haiti relief mission than in the New Orleans one. If so, why? |
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Looking at the numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_reli...) I would be incredibly surprised if the Haiti relief efforts even come close to 1/10th of what was given to support Katrina (~$52 billion).
As far as organization, from what I've heard from people I know who are there helping, some parts are completely chaotic especially the farther away from the capital. In other areas people have had to step in and assume authority due to the government being non-existent.
There isn't even any clarity as to who controls the relief operations UN or US. And there are definitely various roles that were filled in by the US (air traffic control).
Maybe others can help chip in information?