Leland,

I was aware that you have had an involvement w/ the people of Haiti. I 
did not know to what extent. Thank you.
>
> The current devastation is difficult to watch, but is more a horrible 
> continuation of bad luck and neglect.
>
What I have gathered is that besides deforestation, and over fishing, 
and movement from rural to urban density, and corrupt governments that 
France demanded a cost for Haitian independence that in today's dollars 
would amount to $20 B and that they were not able to pay it off until 
1946. That they paid it off at all is amazing to me. There is obviously 
an immediate need, but what I find bothersome is the tendency for 
neglect to set back into place after the urgency of the immediate need 
passes.

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