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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The FIRST earthquake.
Countries put hundreds of millions into disaster relief after the 2010 earthqake, and accomplished essentially nothing in terms of relief.
Haiti has a complicated history, lots of which is outlined above. Basically all of their natural resources are gone, governments haven't been very stable at the best of times, and they essentially have had NO government for the last 5 or so years.
Port au Prince is essentially ruled by violent gangs at this point. A couple weeks ago, these gangs broke open the prisons, and let 3000+ criminals escape, essentially making a lot more gang members. Reports out of the country are saying that the gang violence has gotten worse since.
There is some talk from places like Ghana, bringing an army over to restore control, but obviously restoring control itself would be extremely hard on civilians.
If there was an easy solution to fix that country, it would have been done a long time ago.
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In my readings its abundantly clear that when you roll in the Army...thats a desperate last resort.
Soldiers are trained to eliminate their enemy, when you put soldiers in charge of civilian populations? You have, by default, made the civilians 'The Enemy.'
And, Historically, that usually doesnt go well.