Why do you think the authorities in Haiti had little or no Earth Quake contingency plans in place?
It’s not as simple as that, remember they are extremely poor, with barely the resources to feed the population let alone contigency plans for anythng. No building codes existed either, as they don’t in many other caribbean nations. This is from the CIA world fact book Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty. Two-thirds of all Haitians depend on the agricultural sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming, and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country’s widespread deforestation. While the economy has recovered in recent years, registering positive growth since 2005, four tropical storms in 2008 severely damaged the transportation infrastructure and agricultural sector. US economic engagement under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) Act, passed in December 2006, has boosted apparel exports and investme
