USAID SCREWS HAITI AGAIN!!!!-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

THIS IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF USAID INCOMPETENCE. THEY CONTRACTED WITH SOME MORON TO WRITE AN ASSESSMENT ON DAMAGE AND RUBBLE REMOVAL THE AUTHOR GRATUITOUSLY GAVE AN UNSUPPORTABLE OPINION OF LOSS OF LIFE AND HOMELESS HAITIANS THAT IS TOTALLY OUT OF STEP WITH REALITY.

AFTER DAMAGING DELAY, USAID HAITI DIRECTOR CARLEENE DEI ISSUED A DENIAL IN WHICH SHE SAID, “ANY COMMENT ON THE DEATH TOLL OF THE TRAGIC EARTHQUAKE OF JANUARY 2010 THAT AFFECTED SO MANY, IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THE COMMISSION AND PURELY REFLECTS THE VIEWS OF THE AUTHOR…”

UNFORTUNATELY, THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES WENT WORLDWIDE, WITH THE LIE, BEFORE USAID DID SOMETHING.

THE DAMAGE IS DONE AND MANY BELIEVE IT IS A CYNICAL EFFORT TO REDUCE THE CASH PROMISED TO ASSIST HAITI.

U.S. Reduces Estimates of Homeless in Haiti Quake

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD new York times  May 31, 2011

MEXICO CITY — As a new Haitian government seeks to jump-start aid to rebuild the country after the January 2010 earthquake, a draft of a new United States government report suggests that the scope of the disaster was not as severe as previously estimated.

The report, dated May 13 but not yet released publicly, comes as the new Haitian government seeks to fully collect the $4.6 billion pledged a year ago by international donors and as the hurricane season begins, raising the specter of additional trouble in the months ahead for the tens of thousands of people living in temporary camps.

The United States report said as many as 895,000 people moved into camps after the earthquake, not the 1.5 million estimated by the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental organization. At most 375,000 people remain, the report said, contrary to the migration organization’s tally of more than 600,000.

The amount of rubble that must be cleared has also been overstated, the report said, putting it at 3.7 million cubic meters, a far cry from the 20 million to 25 million cubic meters of rubble that the Army Corps of Engineers originally estimated or the 10 million the United Nations reported earlier this year.

But the United States Agency for International Development, or U.S.A.I.D., which hired a Washington research group to prepare the report, backed away on Tuesday from the report’s most incendiary figure, which estimated the earthquake’s death toll at 46,000 to 85,000 people. The Haitian government announced in January that 316,000 had been killed; in the initial weeks after the earthquake, it said about 230,000 had died.

Carleene Dei, a U.S.A.I.D. director, said in a statement that “any comment on the death toll of the tragic earthquake of January 2010 that affected so many, is beyond the scope of the commission and purely reflects the views of the author.”

An agency spokesman declined additional comment, saying the report was still being reviewed. The lead author, Timothy T. Schwartz, is a cultural anthropologist who in the past has written critically of some aid relief in Haiti.

Mr. Schwartz did not respond to a request for comment, but he defended his work on a blog, saying the higher death toll estimates were not supported by research or other evidence. His figure was derived from statistical sampling and an analysis of one part of Port-au-Prince, the capital.

In the early days after the quake, people swarmed into encampments with little accounting of how many people were there. Corpses were collected and buried with little documentation.

The Haitian government has never explained how it arrived at its figures for the death toll. The International Organization for Migration eventually began a census of the camp populations. It stood by its figures, which it said come from extensive field surveys.

The United States report, leaked to news organizations this past week, left some in the relief community wondering if it foretold a reduction in aid, which they said would be a premature retreat. Already, international donors have given only a small part, about 37 percent, of the $4.6 billion pledged.

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

Now USAID has given the world an opportunity to rationalize their way out of sending their pledges to the desperate people of Haiti.

This is added to the 1,000,000 plus who will be infected with MINUSTAH’s gift of cholera.

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  1. The U.S. government really seems to have it in for Haiti. I am anxiously waiting to see what the Wikileaks cables on U.S. involvement in Haiti will tell us. The paper Haiti Liberté has been chosen by Wikileaks to release the cables that should throw some light on U.S. involvement in Haiti, some of which I assume is none too flattering for the reputation of the US. I am anxious to hear your opinions regarding these leaks.

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