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by stuartaxelowen 4018 days ago
Now that's an inflammatory title. Didn't local corruption mean that land-owners would gouge the Red Cross, causing them to spread aid in different ways?
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Do read the ProPublica report linked in the very first paragraph and you may feel differently.

(Or click on the link to the ProPublica [0] piece and/or the related NPR piece [1] below -- the two outfits jointly investigated the Red Cross' Haiti efforts and published articles based on their findings:

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red... )

P.S. Per the linked post, the Red Cross responded to these reports -- here's the link if you care to read their side:

http://www.redcross.org/news/article/The-Real-Story-of-the-6...