News Links tagged "Natural Disasters"
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Monday, August 30, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Plans and Benchmarks for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | The New York Times |
| Brief: | Haiti's urgent and unmet needs are staggering. |
Monday, August 23, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Despite 'all that money,' more than 1 million Haitians remain displaced by January earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Edward Cody The Washington Post |
| Brief: | More than seven months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, an estimated 1.3 million Haitians -- 15 percent of the population -- are still living in tents or under leaky tarps. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Haitian quake shook leader to his core |
| Author/Source: | Joe Mozingo The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | 'As a person I was paralyzed,' says President Rene Preval, recalling the suffering he saw. He's quiet for a politician, even humble; but his silence since the disaster enrages many. |
Monday, August 16, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Washington and International Donors Have Failed Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mark Weisbrot Center For Economic And Policy Research |
| Brief: | It's time for members of the U.S. Congress to step up to the plate and change our foreign policy toward Haiti, as they did after the 1991 military coup. |
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Displacement, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Many Haitians still homeless more than six months after quake |
| Author/Source: | Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | More than six months after Haiti's catastrophic quake, a thickening sense of hopelessness hangs over the estimated 1.5 million displaced people who await more durable shelters. |
Monday, August 2, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haiti relief efforts: Doing good, or doing harm? |
| Author/Source: | Trenton Daniel The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Under debate, though, is who is best qualified to respond to natural disasters. Now, as Haiti enters the height of the hurricane season and its potential for flash floods and landslides, that question takes on more urgency. |
Thursday, July 22, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | IMF cancels Haiti's $268m debts and agrees $60m loan |
| Author/Source: | BBC |
| Brief: | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to cancel Haiti's $268m (£176m) debt and lend the impoverished Caribbean nation a further $60m. |
| Location: | Haiti, Venezuela |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Relations with Venezuela |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Hugo Chavez announced just a short while ago that he was severing all ties with Colombia over this FARC presentation that Venezuela was harboring FARC terrorists inside Venezuela. |
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Helping Haitians help themselves |
| Author/Source: | The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The administration should make good on its promise to expedite the immigration to the U.S. of about 55,000 Haitians who have been approved for visas. |
Monday, July 19, 2010
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Haiti |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | After the quake, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have a smoother, but fragile, relationship |
| Author/Source: | Frances Robles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Haiti's prime minister says relations have not been better in 200 years. But experts worry that the goodwill sown between the two nations in the months since the quake will quickly dissipate, as recovery stalls and more Haitian migrants cross illegally in |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Seaport, the engine of Haiti's recovery, is sputtering |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | The Port-au-Prince seaport, a main economic driver of Haiti's economy, is critical to the country's recovery from the worst natural disaster in the Western Hemisphere. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Video: Assessing the Recovery: Haiti After Six Months |
| Author/Source: | Center For Strategic And International Studies |
| Brief: |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S.-sponsored conference pledged billions to rebuild Haiti, but little paid out |
| Author/Source: | Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post |
| Brief: | U.S. lawmakers and international aid officials have expressed mounting concern about the slow recovery of the hemisphere's poorest country. |
Friday, July 16, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Bill Clinton gets tough as donors fail to honour $5bn Haiti pledge |
| Author/Source: | Richard Luscombe Guardian Weekly |
| Brief: | Six months after the disaster that killed 220,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless, only $506m of $5.3bn raised at an international donors' conference in March has been handed over. |
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti's earthquake: a Port-au-Prince report |
| Author/Source: | Johanna Mendelson Forman Open Democracy |
| Brief: | Six months after the catastrophe in Haiti's capital, the realities of insecurity, displacement and poverty co-exist with opportunities and agents of reconstruction. |
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Bill Clinton Anxious & Hopeful About Haiti Recovery 6 Months After Earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Jonathan M. Katz Huffington Post |
| Brief: | Former U.S. President Bill Clinton expressed frustration Saturday over the slow pace of Haiti's earthquake recovery. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | The sad math of U.S. aid in Haiti: 6 months, 2 percent |
| Author/Source: | Dana Milbank The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Only 2 percent of promised reconstruction aid has been delivered. Only 2 percent of the rubble has been cleared. And not quite 2 percent of the dislocated have been moved into housing. |
Monday, July 12, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Better housing will improve health in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Peter Williams Guardian Weekly |
| Brief: | Reconstruction efforts must prioritise infrastructure as well as shelter and medicines |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Quake-stricken Haiti bears scars six months on |
| Author/Source: | Matthew Price BBC |
| Brief: | The slums that seethe under those tarpaulins were meant to be temporary. Now they house more than a million people and have an air of permanence. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | 6 months after Haiti quake, land disputes grind recovery to a near-standstill |
| Author/Source: | Jonathan M. Katz Associated Press Newser |
| Brief: | Everyone bemoans the lack of progress. But Bellerive says the government needs to proceed with caution so it doesn't simply replicate the pre-quake slums |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Video: Haiti still suffering six months on from earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Tom Leonard Telegraph |
| Brief: | Port-au-Prince is still a city of rubble, tented squalor and desperate need. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Video: Update on Efforts in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Mills, Rajiv Shah U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | It has been roughly three months since the international community came together at the UN and pledged billions of dollars in assistance, long-term assistance, to the people of Haiti. We thought it was important on the six-month anniversary to bring back |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Six Month Commemoration of Haiti Earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | It has been six months since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti and claimed the lives of 230,000 people. Hundreds of thousands more were injured and left homeless. In Haiti's hour of greatest need the international community responded. |
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
| Location: | Haiti, Venezuela |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Venezuela major donor of assistance to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Jim Wyss The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | With economic problems piling up at home, Venezuela has emerged as a big player and big spender in the Haitian recovery effort. |
Friday, July 2, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Three Things You Should Know About the U.S. Government's Work in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | USAID |
| Brief: | USAID, the international community, and the Government of Haiti have moved at least 503,500 cubic meters of rubble between January and June of 2010. |
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Army South's New Horizons-Haiti 2010 exercise an international effort |
| Author/Source: | Scott Bell Southern Command |
| Brief: | Since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. has contributed nearly $1.1 billion towards relief and recovery efforts. Another $1.15 billion has been pledged over the coming year which represents roughly 22 percent of the total pledged by nearly 4 |
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
| Location: | Ecuador, Haiti |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Gobierno envia nuevo contingente a Haiti para apoyar en su reconstruccion |
| Author/Source: | Presidencia De La Republica De Ecuador |
| Brief: | Por tal motivo el MRECI dispuso el traslado a Puerto Principe del Embajador en Republica Dominicana, que es ademas Embajador concurrente en Haiti, a fin negociar y facilitar la permanencia de dicho contingente. |
Monday, June 28, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | President Obama could rapidly aid Haitian immigration seekers |
| Author/Source: | The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The main question is whether Haitians will face a wait for visas that can last from four years to 11 years. |
Friday, June 25, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Corruption, Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitians still wait for recovery |
| Author/Source: | E. Thomas Johnson The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Instead of facilitating imports of equipment, leaders have lapsed into a pattern of corruption and delay. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | The United States Government's Haiti Earthquake Response |
| Author/Source: | The White House |
| Brief: | In light of Haitian President Preval's attendance at the G8 today, the President reiterated the importance of this sustained commitment by the international community. |
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | US Senate Report Says Haiti Rebuilding Has Stalled |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | Haiti has made little progress in rebuilding in the five months since its earthquake, because of an absence of leadership, disagreements among donors and general disorganization, a U.S. Senate report says. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Worry, harsh words from U.S. on Haiti recovery |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles The Washington Post |
| Brief: | More than five months after a devastating earthquake, there are worrisome signs that the massive rebuilding efforts have stalled. |
Friday, June 18, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti: Reconstruction Panel Meets |
| Author/Source: | The New York Times |
| Brief: | The commission announced $45 million in grants from Brazil and Norway to help the government close its budget gap and a $20 million fund. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Army major, Haiti native receives Soldier's Medal |
| Author/Source: | Southern Command |
| Brief: | Sabbatt, a native of Haiti currently serving as deputy commander of the U.S. Embassy's Military Group in Port-au-Prince, for his actions in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti Jan. 12. |
Friday, June 11, 2010
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Haiti |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | La suerte de Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Juan Guiliani Cury Listin Diario |
| Brief: | El aporte de los dominicanos se dio desde el primer momento cuando se activo una rapida respuesta de ayuda de emergencia. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | USAID-DCHA Haiti Earthquake Fact Sheet (pdf) |
| Author/Source: | USAID |
| Brief: | As of June 11, 2010, the total USAID, State, and DoD Humanitarian Assistance to Haiti reached $1,094,960,783. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | USAID-DCHA Haiti Earthquake Fact Sheet (pdf) |
| Author/Source: | USAID |
| Brief: | As of June 11, 2010, the total USAID, State, and DoD Humanitarian Assistance to Haiti reached $1,094,960,783. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | National Guard Soldiers continue humanitarian help in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | North Dakota National Guard Southern Command |
| Brief: | While U.S. Southern Command's earthquake disaster response in Haiti officially ended Tuesday, humanitarian and construction work augmented by about 500 National Guard Soldiers continue there. |
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
| Location: | Cuba, Haiti |
| Category: | Cuban Foreign Policy, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Cuban Public Health Cooperation in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Elizabeth Newhouse, Wayne Smith Center For International Policy |
| Brief: | To highlight the prominent role Cuba plays in Haiti and to urge U.S.-Cuban cooperation, the Center for International Policy, together with MEDICC (Medical Education and Cooperation with Cuba), held a conference on April 21st. |
Friday, June 4, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Military Stays Ready to Respond When Haiti Calls |
| Author/Source: | Lisa Daniel Southern Command |
| Brief: | Southern Command's withdrawal of troops from the earthquake response mission in Haiti does not mark the end of U.S. military involvement there, Southcom's deputy commander said today. |
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Bill Clinton seeks hurricane-preparedness answers in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Clinton said he wasn't happy with the progress so far but was pleased with efforts to provide temporary shelter. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Southern Command transitions Haiti efforts |
| Author/Source: | Southern Command |
| Brief: | The U.S. Southern Command’s (Southcom) Joint Task Force Haiti officially completed its mission today marking the end of Operation Unified Response |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Military Ends Earthquake Relief Effort in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Reuters The New York Times |
| Brief: | Despite the announcement, the Miami-based command said a 500-strong contingent of U.S. National Guard Troops would be engaged in humanitarian assistance projects in rural Haiti through September |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. troops depart Haiti, but much work remains to be done |
| Author/Source: | Washington Post |
| Brief: | Now that the full-time presence of American boots on the ground is ending, it's critical that the administration not repeat this nation's long, sad history of on-again, off-again attention to Haiti's suffering |
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
| Location: | Brazil, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Brasil e primeiro doador para Fundo de Reconstrucao do Haiti |
| Author/Source: | O Globo |
| Brief: | Brasil formalizou nesta terça-feira a doação de US$ 55 milhões ao Fundo de Reconstrução do Haiti, tornando-se o primeiro pais a contribuir para a iniciativa. |
Friday, May 7, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs to Host Haiti Tech Meet-Up |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Spokesman U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The U.S. Department of State will host a conference to explore how technology efforts are helping to rebuild Haiti better on May 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., in the East Auditorium of the George C. Marshall Conference Center. |
Thursday, May 6, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Elections, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Haiti Prez to Extend Term if Election Not Held |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | His aide said the extension is needed to avoid chaos in case a ballot cannot be held to choose Preval's successor. The announcement set off an outcry from opposition lawmakers, who called the move unconstitutional and compared Preval to brutal dictators o |
Friday, April 30, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | BID donara 90 mdd a Haiti para recuperacion tras sismo |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse La Jornada (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Una primera donacion de 50 millones de dolares servira de apoyo presupuestario a Haiti, el resto de la donacion se utilizara para la construir hogares para los damnificados. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti necesitara $800 millones para el sector agricola |
| Author/Source: | ACAN-EFE La Prensa (Panama) |
| Brief: | Destaco que las cosas van mejorando en Haiti, aunque existen muchos retos por salvar, debido a que no se cuentan con los recursos necesarios para realizar una inversion agricola a gran escala. |
Thursday, April 29, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets |
| Author/Source: | Manuel Roig-Franzia The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Concrete played the villain's role in the Jan. 12 earthquake drama that savaged Haiti's capital. The city's dominant building material was weak when it should have been strong. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Department of State Announces $10.5 Million Contribution to Address Migration-Related Challenges in Aftermath of Haiti Earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Spokesman U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The $10.5 million contribution to UNHCR, UNICEF and PAHO that Assistant Secretary Schwartz announced (detailed below) is in addition to a $4 million contribution made to IOM for repatriation assistance activities. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Tensions rise over Haiti tent camps |
| Author/Source: | Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Across the Port-au-Prince region, Haitian and international officials are confronting the tricky task of balancing the needs of more than a million homeless with the urge of many others to resume a more normal life. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. forces to stay near Haiti through hurricane season |
| Author/Source: | John J. Kruzel U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The American military's role in Haiti will decrease substantially after May, but the United States will maintain a scaled-down presence in the area through hurricane season. |
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Haiti, the NPT Conference and Iran, at the Security Council Stakeout |
| Author/Source: | Susan E. Rice U.S. Mission To The United Nations |
| Brief: | I underscored, in my statement, which I hope you had an opportunity to see, the U.S.' enduring support for the people and the government of Haiti. |
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Haiti: Int'l Aid Needed to Hold Elections |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | President Rene Preval made the comments after meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the close of a meeting of Caribbean leaders. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Lynn thanks Vinson's crew for service, adaptability during Haiti mission |
| Author/Source: | Jim Garamone U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III today thanked the crew of the USS Carl Vinson for their efforts to rescue Haitian people following the earthquake. |
Monday, April 26, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Airborne Soldiers set to return home after Haiti relief mission |
| Author/Source: | Joint Task Force-Haiti Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | More than 600 Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), "White Falcons," 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division will depart Haiti beginning April 27, after completing their humanitarian aid and disaster relief |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Louisiana Guard set to lead new Haiti mission |
| Author/Source: | Army Spc. Darron Salzer U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The Louisiana National Guard is scheduled to lead a "New Horizons" humanitarian assistance exercise in Haiti beginning June 1. |
Friday, April 23, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Southern Command announces continued humanitarian assistance to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command Public Affaris U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced today a New Horizons humanitarian assistance exercise in Haiti that will provide much needed medical and engineering services to several communities outside of Port au Prince, including Gonaives, beginning June 1 |
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Peacekeeping, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Assistant Secretary Shapiro Visits Haiti to Highlight U.S. Support for Peacekeeping |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Spokesman U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro and U.S. Air Force General Douglas Fraser, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) traveled to Haiti April 21. |
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Trombitas takes command of JTF-Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Army News U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Maj. Gen. Simeon G. Trombitas, commander of U.S. Army South, took over the reins of Joint Task Force-Haiti Sunday. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Militares de EU preparan salida de Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Para junio, unicamente 400 elementos de la Guardia Nacional y la Reserva permaneceran en Haiti. |
Monday, April 19, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Europes Role, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Condolences Concerning Four Spanish Soldiers Who Died in Helicopter Crash in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The United States is deeply saddened by the deaths of four Spanish soldiers in an April 16 helicopter crash during a humanitarian mission in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. troop drawdown in Haiti slated by June |
| Author/Source: | John J. Kruzel U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The U.S. military's role in Haiti is slated to further decrease by June, with the 2,200-strong U.S. force currently there expected to drop to about 500 members. |
Friday, April 16, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. military engineers help Haiti build a better future |
| Author/Source: | Judith Snyderman U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Efforts to help Haiti rebuild after a devastating earthquake on Jan. 12 will continue after the joint U.S. military task force there winds down at the end of May. |
Thursday, April 15, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Seabee progress in Haiti saving lives |
| Author/Source: | Chief Mass Communication Specialist James G. Pinsky U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | According to Killian, the scope of work for the Seabees at Camp Petionville falls into three basic engineering categories: flood control and drainage, landslide prevention and shoring, and safety and egress. |
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Leg Lost, Dancer Is Caught Between Caregivers |
| Author/Source: | Deborah Sontag The New York Times |
| Brief: | "I am learning the hard way that the disaster zone is more than just destruction and injured people; it is a complex mix of politics, egos and power plays as well." |
Monday, April 12, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitian earthquake victims relocated to new camps |
| Author/Source: | Joe Mozingo The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Relief organizations secure a dusty field for the displaced, but at least they should be safe from flooding. |
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Video: Building Back Haiti Better: Reaching Hearts and Minds Through Video |
| Author/Source: | Suzanne Hall U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The Haiti Donors' Conference was a one day event at the UN on March 31. But through this video, we are able to scale the message about the need to work together to rebuild Haiti into the future and across geographic boundaries. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Seabees improve conditions in Petionville for displaced Haitians |
| Author/Source: | Chief Mass Communication Specialist (SCW/EXW/SW/AW/SG) James U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "The Seabees are actualizing the foundation [of camp improvements] laid forth by the U.S. military to improve this camp," said Penn. |
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Preval propone crear una fuerza rapida humanitaria de la ONU |
| Author/Source: | Deborah Pasmantier Agence France Presse El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La idea es crear una fuerza especificamente dedicada a la ayuda en caso de catastrofes naturales y capaz de reaccionar en unas horas. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | USS Bataan arrives home after 10 weeks in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Christina M. U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Bataan operated primarily off the coast of Grand Goave, Haiti, and conducted "22 Sailors Ashore Missions" (SAM), ultimately removing 150 tons of rubble, building 65 shelters for 130 families and distributing more than 500,000 meals. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Military continues to support recovery in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Judith Snyderman U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | At the peak of the crisis, some 20,000 U.S. servicemembers were involved in the mission. A phased withdrawal has reduced that number to 2,400. |
Monday, April 5, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Interview: Raymond A. Joseph |
| Author/Source: | Elizabeth Dickinson Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | Haiti's ambassador on his hopes for the more than $5 billion pledged in aid at this week's donor conference -- and why Haiti can't be rebuilt as a republic of NGOs. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | China should be ashamed of its aid to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Andres Oppenheimer The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | The Chinese contribution was, to put it nicely, pitiful. |
Friday, April 2, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Haiti: Stabilisation and Reconstruction after the Quake |
| Author/Source: | International Crisis Group |
| Brief: | Executive summary and recommendations. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Media, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | "Telling Haiti's Stories" |
| Author/Source: | Kimberly Abbott International Crisis Group, The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | While the missions of aid groups are far different than those of traditional news organizations, their role in telling Haiti's stories is illustrative of what NGOs can and are doing to fill the growing geographic gap in foreign reporting. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Audio: Haiti: Two Month Assessment from the Ground |
| Author/Source: | International Crisis Group |
| Brief: | Two months after a devastating 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, nearly a quarter million people remain in squalid tent cities, and the situation could become catastrophic if they are not moved before the impending rainy season. |
Thursday, April 1, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | I think it was former President Clinton that had one of the lines of the day yesterday in terms of saying that we don’t agree with Cuba and Venezuela on very much, but we all agree on the importance of assistance to Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Corporations, Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | 'Haiti Hope' drink makes its debut |
| Author/Source: | Stewart Stogel The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Called Odwalla's "Haiti Hope," the drink is a mango limeade juice whose profits will go to rebuild Haiti. It should be widely available in the United States by early April in supermarkets and juice stores. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Skepticism on Pledges for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Neil MacFarquhar The New York Times |
| Brief: | Haitians remain skeptical because millions of dollars were pledged in the past for hurricane relief, but only a fraction was actually paid. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | International Donors' Conference Toward a New Future for Haiti/Statement by Co-Hosts and Co-Chairs |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Spokesman U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | This assistance will support the vision and Action Plan presented by the Haitian government, incorporating the results of the Post Disaster Needs Assessment. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks After the Haiti Donors Conference |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The member states of the United Nations and international partners have pledged $5.3 billion U.S. dollars for the next two years and $9.9 billion in total for the next three years and beyond. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Bill Clinton to take on key Haiti reconstruction role |
| Author/Source: | The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | As foreign aid donors seek $4 billion toward Haiti's rebuilding over the next two years, many are asking whether the country is ready to manage the reconstruction. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Rushed From Haiti, Then Jailed for Lacking Visas |
| Author/Source: | Nina Bernstein The New York Times |
| Brief: | More than two months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, at least 30 survivors who were waved onto planes by Marines in the chaotic aftermath are prisoners of the United States immigration system. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Separated children in Haiti often not welcome home |
| Author/Source: | The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | The aid groups have already found 700 children they believe were separated from their families by the earthquake, and they expect the number to rise dramatically because of a new hot line set up to report cases of separated children. |
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Haiti, Venezuela |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, Russian Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Mark C. Toner U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We send our best wishes to them and to their families, and we continue to call on the FARC to release all its remaining hostages. And we also support President Uribe's efforts to secure the safe release of all hostages. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti Reconstruction: Ambitious, Precarious Plans |
| Author/Source: | Evelyn Leopold The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | It is a formidable task, with as much chance of failure as success, to rebuild a country under plans resembling Plato's Republic in the Caribbean. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti Frets Over Aid and Control of Rebuilding |
| Author/Source: | Neil MacFarquhar The New York Times |
| Brief: | More than $1.35 billion has been committed to Haiti in humanitarian assistance since the devastating earthquake on Jan. 12, but less than $23 million in cash has been given to the Haitian government so far. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Donors Meet on Massive Haiti Aid Drive |
| Author/Source: | Reuters The New York Times |
| Brief: | "What we envision today is wholesale national renewal, a sweeping exercise in nation-building on a scale and scope not seen in generations," United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton At the International Donors' Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti, United Nations Headquarters New York |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton United States Mission To The United Nations |
| Brief: | Therefore, this is not only a conference about what financially we pledge to Haiti. We also have to pledge our best efforts to do better ourselves - to offer our support in a smarter way, a more effective way that produces real results for the people of |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | A Plan to Spur Growth Away From Haiti’s Capital |
| Author/Source: | Nicolai Ouroussoff The New York Times |
| Brief: | The lucid, far-reaching reconstruction guidelines that the Haitian government is scheduled to unveil on Wednesday at a donors' conference at the United Nations should give all who care about Haiti's future cause for hope. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti busca dinero en Nueva York |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El presidente del pais caribeno, Rene Preval, pide US$3.900 millones en la conferencia de donantes para reconstruir el pais tras el terremoto. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Interview With Martin Smith of Frontline |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | So you've got to be sensitive to the Haitian experience and the Haitian ideas about what they're going to want. And as we put together all of these plans, the Haitians have to be in the lead, and the international community has to be supportive. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | In U.S. plan for Haiti, rebuilding government is key |
| Author/Source: | Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The most dramatic change is an effort to build up Haiti's fragile government instead of working around it. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Clinton promete mil 150 millones en ayuda para a Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press La Prensa (Panama) |
| Brief: | La secretaria de Estado estadounidense, Hillary Rodham Clinton, anuncio hoy, miercoles, que su pais ofrecera mil 150 millones de dolares para la reconstruccion de Haiti en los proximos dos anos. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | A Service Economy in Haiti’s Tent Cities |
| Author/Source: | Robert Mackey The Lede, The New York Times |
| Brief: | Thinking about the tent cities, Richard Morse, a Haitian-American musician and hotel manager - whose Twitter feed continues to be a source of information and criticism of the relief effort - wrote on The Huffington Post on Tuesday that life in the tent ci |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | International Donors' Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Mills, Arturo Valenzuela, Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We've spent two months working intensively with the international community, the United Nations, to stabilize Haiti but now it's time to provide the resources to help Haiti rebuild. |
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti to release far-reaching spending plan to rebuild country |
| Author/Source: | Colum Lynch The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The plan, which Preval will present to donors at a U.N. conference in New York, would essentially redirect much of Haiti's economic development outside Port-au-Prince, creating provisional economic hubs. |
Monday, March 29, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | ONU busca generosidad mundial para la reconstruccion de Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Joaquim Utset EFE El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La ONU apelara el 31 de marzo a la generosidad internacional para reunir los $3,800 millones necesarios para reconstruir Haiti tras el catastrofico sismo del pasado 12 de enero. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Quake Accentuated Chasm That Has Defined Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Simon Romero The New York Times |
| Brief: | People in tent camps reeking of sewage are living in areas where prosperous Haitians, foreign aid workers and diplomats come to spend their money and unwind. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Place Haiti under 'trusteeship' |
| Author/Source: | Chris Dodd The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Chapter XII of the United Nations Charter established the International Trusteeship System for the supervision of territories placed under U.N. control by agreement of the territories themselves. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Renewal, not restoration, should be the goal for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Ban Ki-moon The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Haiti's president and government have worked out a strategic national "action plan" to guide recovery and development. It is a visionary document. |
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitian diaspora working on recovery plan |
| Author/Source: | Lesley Clark The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Participating groups were to include the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition, the Greater Washington Haiti Relief Committee, the National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians and groups representing physicians, engineers, lawyers, teachers, poli |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Americas Development Bank Forgives Much of Haiti's Debt |
| Author/Source: | Marc Lacey The New York Times |
| Brief: | Haiti received a boost to its balance sheet on Monday when the Inter-American Development Bank, meeting in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, agreed to forgive $479 million of the country's $1.2 billion in foreign debt. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | In Haiti, funerals become eulogies for a nation |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Two months after Haiti's greatest disaster, funerals have become the new norm in a post-quake Haiti, where only weeks ago the dead were piled up on the side of roads and then tossed into mass graves. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Public Security |
| Title: | Haiti races to house post-quake homeless before the rainy season |
| Author/Source: | Kathie Klarreich The Christian Science Monitor |
| Brief: | The Haiti government needs 40,000 dwellings for 200,000 people currently homeless in flood- or mudslide-prone areas or in the most congested tent cities. Can it do that by the time the rainy season starts in early April? |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Presidents Bush, Clinton Visit Devastated Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton clasped hands with residents of one of Haiti's massive tent cities Monday on a tour of its quake-devastated capital -- a visit intended to remind donors of the immense needs facing the recovery effort. |
| Location: | Haiti, Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Ice Cream Sales A Lifeline For Haitians In Caracas |
| Author/Source: | Reuters The New York Times |
| Brief: | The Venezuelan government began a campaign last week to register the estimated 15,000 more Haitians thought to be living illegally in the country. All Haitians who have been in Venezuela since before the earthquake will now be granted visas, the governmen |
Monday, March 22, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | JTF-Bravo deploys helicopters, personnel to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Staff Sgt. Bryan Franks, 1st Lt. Jen Richard U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Once in Haiti, the JTF-B helicopters and personnel are scheduled to provide air support to JTF-Haiti, with a focus on providing airlift to people in need of medical evacuation. |
Friday, March 19, 2010
| Location: | Chile, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Terremotos: ¿por que la diferencia de muertos entre Haiti y Chile? |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Los investigadores sostuvieron que el conocimiento publico acerca de los terremotos en Chile, junto con la forma lenta en que el sismo fue ganando fuerza hasta su punto maximo, hicieron que mucha gente tuviese tiempo de salir de los edificios |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti Looks Past Foreign Health Aid |
| Author/Source: | Miriam Jordan The Wall Street Journal |
| Brief: | An assessment prepared by foreign experts for the U.N., World Bank and Haiti government, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, calls for a system that guarantees universal access to primary care, quality services and essential medication |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Elections, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | OEA confia en comenzar en abril labores para las elecciones de Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Para realizar los comicios, las autoridades haitianas y la OEA deben comenzar cuanto antes el registro de votantes y la publicacion de un nuevo padron |
Thursday, March 18, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Out of Ruin, Haiti’s Visionaries |
| Author/Source: | Holland Cotter The New York Times |
| Brief: | Their art comes across as a hellish response to the older painters of tropical idylls, though in reality all of these artists share a common bond |
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.N. and Haitian government to begin campaign to house homeless before rain season |
| Author/Source: | Lois Romano The Washington Post |
| Brief: | As engineers survey properties, they will assess whether a structure is safe for a family to inhabit, said France Hurtubise, a spokeswoman for OCHA. If not, families will be encouraged to camp out nearby in the hope that their homes can be stabilized or r |
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | International Donors' Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Spokesman U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The International Donors' Conference will be an opportunity for the international community to pledge new financial assistance to help Haiti rebuild, and to mobilize a truly global and sustained international effort to partner with Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Immigration Offer Draws Few Haitians |
| Author/Source: | Anne Barnard The New York Times |
| Brief: | Two months after the earthquake, and a third of the way to the July deadline to file for the special status, just 34,427 of the estimated 100,000 to 200,000 undocumented Haitians who were in the United States before Jan. 12 have applied. |
Monday, March 15, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti's Excluded |
| Author/Source: | Reed Lindsay The Nation |
| Brief: | That the large aid organizations are not reaching out to community-based organizations, much less consulting them, is nothing new in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Migration, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitians who fled capital strain impoverished towns in countryside |
| Author/Source: | William Booth The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The earthquake that struck Haiti's capital city has also jarred the impoverished countryside, sending 600,000 people into the provinces -- where locals are now overwhelmed with the task of feeding and sheltering desperate newcomers. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.N. Chief Urges Donors to Keep Haiti Funds Flowing |
| Author/Source: | Reuters The New York Times |
| Brief: | Making his second brief visit to the wrecked capital Port-au-Prince since the January 12 quake, Ban sought to restore momentum to what some fear is faltering donor support for efforts to help more than a million homeless quake survivors. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Haiti's Do-It-Yourself Recovery |
| Author/Source: | Lawrence Downes The New York Times |
| Brief: | The government has a reputation as hopeless, but at the street level, Haiti shows powerful tendencies toward self-organizing, adaptability and cooperation |
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks With Haitian President Rene Preval After Their Meeting |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | President Preval made the very important point that we must work toward elections to ensure the stability and legitimacy of the Haitian Government. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | What happens to Haiti when 'the good doctors' leave? |
| Author/Source: | Joel Rubin The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Emergency medical workers are becoming the de facto healthcare system for a country that has long failed to care for its own. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Three Things You Should Know About the U.S. Government's Work in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | USAID |
| Brief: | USAID has created a Haiti Task Team (HTT) to continue inter-agency coordination of the reconstruction efforts that are underway, and to replace the Response Management Team formed at the onset of the crisis. |
Monday, March 8, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haiti Withdrawal: Most U.S. Troops Leaving |
| Author/Source: | Ben Fox, Jennifer Kay The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | Haitians and some aid workers wondered whether U.N. peacekeepers and local police are up to the task of maintaining order. |
Thursday, March 4, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | The United States and United Nations Announce the Haiti Donors' Conference |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The goal of the conference is to mobilize international support for the development needs of Haiti to begin to lay the foundation for Haiti's long-term recovery. |
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
| Location: | Chile, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chile and Haiti: A look at earthquakes and politics |
| Author/Source: | Anne Applebaum The Washington Post |
| Brief: | A society's ability to recover from a natural disaster is also a reflection of its economic and political culture. |
Monday, March 1, 2010
| Location: | Chile, Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes |
| Author/Source: | Tim Padgett Time |
| Brief: | The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile early on Feb. 27 was 500 times stronger than the 7.0 quake that killed an estimated 200,000 Haitians last month. And yet the number of casualties in Chile appears to be exponentially smaller. |
| Location: | Chile, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | What Haiti Can Teach Chile |
| Author/Source: | Joshua Robinson The Daily Beast |
| Brief: | Rescue workers who were there say that the still-fresh lessons of Haiti can be applied in Chile to start saving lives today. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Return to Normalcy: Haitians go back to work |
| Author/Source: | Pfc. Kissta Feldner U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Many citizens have spent these few weeks cleaning and restoring their places of business, just wanting to get back to work and restore some normalcy to their daily routine after the traumatic events following the disaster. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Seabees renovate, improve school in Port-au-Prince |
| Author/Source: | Joint Forces Special Operations Component Command Public Aff U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Navy Seabees have completed renovations at the Quisqueya School to enhance the school's role as a hub for aid groups and humanitarian supplies destined for Haitian earthquake survivors. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Soldiers establish communications in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Lt. Arlo Abrahamson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | pecial Operation Forces served as the commander's eyes on the ground during the early days of the rescue and recovery phases of relief operations in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Military engineers train Haitians to assess building damage |
| Author/Source: | Sgt. Richard Andrade U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The Naval Facilities Engineering Command partnered with U.S. Navy Seebees, Air Force and Army engineers, Feb. 26, here to train Haitian engineers on building assessment ensuring Haitian citizens are living in structurally sound buildings. |
Sunday, February 28, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Army civil affairs teams continue to help as aid capabilities improve in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Lt. Arlo Abrahamson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Civil affairs team leader, Capt. Mike, said the relationship with the NGO "Tzu-Chi" is typical of the partnerships that are built between the U.S. military and relief organizations in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. military assesses outlying support network in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Spc. A. M. LaVey U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "One of the secondary effects of the earthquake is that people who lived in the large cities, like Port-au-Prince, are moving in with their families who live in the outlying communities," said Maj. Gen. Daniel B. Allyn, deputy commanding general |
Friday, February 26, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We've got issues of sanitation. But I think there is work being done in terms of how to move the population into more short-term, sustainable situations, and then how to get about the business of rebuilding Haiti. |
Thursday, February 25, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Humanitarian Aid for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | I rise today to highlight, to honor and to thank these two wonderful organizations and to urge them to keep up the good work. Thank you, Save the Children, thank you, Americare, for all that you have done. |
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
| Location: | Brazil, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Brazil's committed to the long haul |
| Author/Source: | Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva The Miami Herald The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | I will reaffirm Brazil's commitment to cooperate in order to once again lift up a country that has already demonstrated its determination to find its way back to development, political stability and democratic participation. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Development, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti reconstruction official owns share of concrete company |
| Author/Source: | Ken Dilanian USA Today |
| Brief: | Haiti's top reconstruction planning official owns part of the country's largest concrete company, which stands to reap major gains from the coming wave of international rebuilding aid. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Let Haitian kids who need treatment enter our country |
| Author/Source: | Janelle Marie Prieto The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | We are told by the federal government to "fill out forms and in 130-plus days we will let you know." That attitude is a death sentence for many children. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Satellite technology plays key role in Haiti relief effort |
| Author/Source: | Kris Osborn U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The U.S. Army is leveraging state-of-the-art satellite technology to assist in the delivery of much needed supplies to earthquake-damaged Haiti - bringing food, water, clothing and medical equipment to Haitians in crisis/ |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Despite 24/7 relief ops, Airmen find time to volunteer across Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Capt. Nathan D. Broshear U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | In addition to their day-to-day duties, Airmen are working with search and recovery teams, assisting with new road construction, volunteering at the University of Miami hospital near the airport and distributing donated items to injured children. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Navy, Marine Corps team helps coordinate help in Carrefour, Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Cpl. Bobbie Curtis U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | At the facility, civil affairs personnel met with town leaders and NGO officials to plan distributions and combined operations for the people of the local area. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | First U.S. paratroopers to return from Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The redeployment comes as relief efforts take on a new focus and responsibilities transition to UN, NGOs and non-DOD agencies. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Questions Surface After Haitian Airlift |
| Author/Source: | Ginger Thompson The New York Times |
| Brief: | For 12 of the children, last month's airlift transported them from one uncertain predicament to another. As it turns out, those children - between 11 months and 10 years old - were not in the process of being adopted. |
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | JTF-Haiti awaits final World Food Program requirements |
| Author/Source: | Spc. A. M. LaVey U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The World Food Program ended the interim stage of its food distribution program in Haiti Feb. 20. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti leader says quake toll could reach 300,000 |
| Author/Source: | The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | The president of Haiti said Sunday the death toll from his country's earthquake could reach 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered from wrecked buildings. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Squadron transports Marines, provides support for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Lance Cpl. Rashaun X. James U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "The crew's mission was to bring back 44 Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit and replace them with other Marines in order to support Haitian humanitarian assistance and disaster relief," said Capt. Aleksandr Martin-Nims, the aircraft |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Army watercraft assists Colombian Red Cross with delivery of aid to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "Our LCUs have the ability to 'bridge the gap' in an unimproved area such as Killick. An unimproved area, or port, is one which does not have the infrastructure to discharge cargo by conventional means and the LCU's shallow draft, and bow ramp and si |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Seabees provide electricity to Cap-Haitien orphanage |
| Author/Source: | Chief Mass Communications Specialist Robert J. Fluegel U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Two Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group Two, Logistics and Support Unit brought much needed lights and electricity to a new orphanage in the northern city of Cap-Haitien Feb. 19. |
Monday, February 22, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Commission starts preparing plans for Haiti's rebirth |
| Author/Source: | Henri E. Cauvin The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Working out of spare space far from his destroyed downtown offices, Patrick Delatour must sell a future for Haiti to his own people and an audience of international donors, who will help fund an urban rebirth starting from virtually zero. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Comfort Sailors teach critical skills at Haitian medical facility |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chelsea Kennedy U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Comfort also visited the hospital to assess the medical needs of the facility and to assist recovering victims suffering from injuries resulting from last month's earthquake. |
Sunday, February 21, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Air Guard scaling back Haiti relief efforts |
| Author/Source: | Master Sgt. Mike Smith U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The number of Air National Guard members supporting Operation Unified Response dropped to a little over 200 this week as Haitian authorities and nongovernmental organizations begin to accept a greater share of relief efforts in the ravaged country, Guard |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USNS Comfort to temporarily leave Haiti for one-day resupply mission |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The hospital ship will receive medical supplies, provisions and fuel from the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman. |
Saturday, February 20, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Soldiers provide fresh, clean water to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Spc. A.M. LaVey U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "We acquired a water source from the locals who run the well and the pump for us," Latham said. "We are bringing up their water, making it clean and then distributing it." |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Army divers repair Haitian seaport |
| Author/Source: | Staff Sgt. Stephen Roach U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Army divers are deployed to Haiti in support of operation unified response. The small team of engineers specializes in underwater repair, recovery operations, as well as demolition. |
Friday, February 19, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Displacement, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | ONU preocupada por violaciones en campamentos de damnificados en Haiti |
| Author/Source: | EFE Noticias 24 |
| Brief: | La ONU esta preocupada por las informaciones de que dispone y que indican un numero creciente de violaciones de mujeres haitianas en los campamentos donde viven los damnificados por el terremoto del 12 de enero. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | ONU pide ayuda sin precedentes para Haiti |
| Author/Source: | BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | La Organizacion de Naciones Unidas aumento a US$1.441 millones su peticion de ayuda a la comunidad internacional para asistir a los damnificados por el terremoto de Haiti del pasado 12 de enero. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti Needs Business, Not Bureaucracy |
| Author/Source: | Roger F. Noriega, Francis Skrobiszewski American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Re |
| Brief: | In the wake of last month's devastating earthquake, commentators are questioning whether it is the public sector or the private sector that can do the best job in rebuilding Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Haiti PM Denounces Post-Quake Political Conflict |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | The battered nation's second-in-command told The Associated Press during a 40-minute interview that he has two immediate fears -- how the 1.2 million people living in Port-au-Prince's streets, hillsides and gullies will deal with the impending rainy seaso |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Europes Role, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Italian, U.S. troops team to remove rubble from the streets of Port-au-Prince |
| Author/Source: | Pfc. Kissta M. Feldner |
| Brief: | When the road is cleared, it will become a safe route for international aid organizations to access areas of Port-au-Prince in need of assistance, as well as increase traffic flow, open the streets for vendors, and generally enhance functionality of the c |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Human Trafficking, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Mark C. Toner U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | And just to say the Haitian authorities, in our view, have acted appropriately to ensure the group's safety and welfare since their arrest. But I don't have any details on when they might be released and what might ensue. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | "Groups Call on Donors to Advance Human Rights in Rebuilding Haiti" |
| Author/Source: | Center For Economic And Policy Research |
| Brief: | A broad coalition of groups with extensive experience in Haiti made their recommendations yesterday in advance of the donor conference scheduled for March. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | How to Fix Haiti's Fixers |
| Author/Source: | Paul Collier Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Luckily, there's a solution. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Five smart ways to rebuild Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Robert Maguire, Robert Muggah The Christian Science Monitor |
| Brief: | Haiti doesn't need a Marshall Plan imposed by global elites. It needs improved conditions that empower all its people. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti shelter emergency as rain turns camps to mud |
| Author/Source: | Pascal Fletcher The Washington Post |
| Brief: | "Every time I meet with foreign leaders and delegations, I tell them that is the most urgent need," President Rene Preval told Reuters late on Wednesday. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Army civil affairs teams help displaced Haitians |
| Author/Source: | Navy Lt. Arlo Abrahamson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Members of a U.S. special operations civil affairs team visited a sprawling tent city here yesterday as part of an effort to assess conditions in the camp and better align the delivery of food and medical aid. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | AP Interview: Haiti PM Fears Government Collapse |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Thursday his government could collapse because political opponents are capitalizing on its inability to address the staggering fallout of the Jan. 12 earthquake. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Public Health |
| Title: | The Sleeping Catastrophe: HIV/AIDS in an Already Devastated Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Matayo Moshi Council On Hemispheric Affairs |
| Brief: | HIV/AIDS treatment has taken a backseat within the international community to the January 12th earthquake. However, to delay re-addressing the issue with the traditional emphasis will ensure that chronic and new problems stemming from HIV/AIDS will carry |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Public Health |
| Title: | Madres haitianas dan a luz sus bebes en las peores condiciones |
| Author/Source: | Kathleen McGrory El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Las mujeres casi no tienen privacidad y los medicos y las parteras estan muy escasos. La basura y los excrementos humanos, por el contrario, estan por todas partes. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Air Mobility Command Airmen provide hope to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Capt. Jon Stock U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Since Operation Unified Relief operations launched, more than 10,000 AMC active-duty, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard units around the globe have responded in support of the humanitarian mission. |
Thursday, February 18, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Bring on the red helmet brigade |
| Author/Source: | Rene Preval, Nicole Guedj The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | The earthquake in Haiti has shown that the international community needs a UN-led team to co-ordinate disaster relief. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Marines bring language capabilities to humanitarian effort |
| Author/Source: | Air Force 2nd Lt. Victoria Brayton U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Two Haitian-born Marines are using their language skills to help the humanitarian efforts in Haiti, and as U.S. service members they've been heartily welcomed by the local population. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Air Force space experts bring high-tech support to Haiti mission |
| Author/Source: | Staff Sgt. Benjamin Rojek U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Members of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space here are continuing to support relief efforts in Haiti by providing space effects such as satellite communications and position timing and navigation services. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Demand Dwindles for U.S. Forces in Haiti, Official Says |
| Author/Source: | John J. Kruzel U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The need for U.S military forces in Haiti is dwindling as Haitian authorities and nongovernmental organizations begin to accept a greater share of relief efforts in the ravaged country, an American military official said. |
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Europes Role, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Sarkozy, primer presidente frances que visita Haiti |
| Author/Source: | El Pais (Spain) |
| Brief: | El mandatario galo promete un apoyo de 270 millones en dos anos en respaldo economico para la reconstruccion. Aparte, anuncia la condonacion de 56 millones de la deuda con Paris. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Study: Quake damage twice the value of Haiti economy |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press USA Today |
| Brief: | Economists Eduardo Cavallo, Andrew Powell and Oscar Becerra estimated the magnitude-7 quake wrought damage worth between $8.1 billion and $13.9 billion. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Charleston Airmen serve as liaison in Haitian repatriation effort |
| Author/Source: | Staff Sgt. Daniel Bowles U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | A small team of officers at Joint Base Charleston was recently called upon to bridge the gap between South Carolina repatriation efforts and Air Force flights transporting Haiti evacuees to Charleston International Airport in South Carolina. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. troops respond to landslide at Haitian elementary school |
| Author/Source: | Air Force 2nd Lt. Victoria Brayton U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Four children died in the landslide, which struck the Petite Ecole Francaise school around noon. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitian children receive shelter from 2nd Brigade Combat Team paratroopers |
| Author/Source: | Pfc. Kissta Feldner U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | More than a dozen Paratroopers assigned to HHC, 2BCT distributed and assembled five large tents, provided by the United States Agency for International Development, in four different areas of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for needy families and orphans. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. military civil affairs team helping connect multiple aid agencies in Haitian town |
| Author/Source: | Air Force 2nd Lt. Victoria Brayton U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | In addition to working with members of MINUSTAH and the local government, the team collaborated with NGOs at hospitals and camps of internally displaced persons to assess their needs. |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Fuerza Aerea Colombiana continua transportando ayuda humanitaria a Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Fuerza Aerea Colombiana Republica De Colombia - Ministerio De Defensa |
| Brief: | 17.4 Toneladas de ayuda humanitaria fueron transportadas el dia de ayer 14 de Febrero de 2010, en un avion tipo Boeing 727 de la Fuerza Aerea Colombiana hacia la Republica de Haiti, para continuar atendiendo la emergencia registrada tras el devastador ter |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Doctors Haunted by Haitians They Couldn't Help |
| Author/Source: | Deborah Sontag The New York Times |
| Brief: | Now back in their antiseptic, high-tech offices in the United States and elsewhere, the medical professionals who initially flew to Haiti's rescue are haunted by their experiences. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Joint medical team provides caring hands for Haiti effort |
| Author/Source: | 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Beginning Jan. 18, the 23-member element conducted 90 surgeries, evacuated over 400 patients and saw an average of over 39 patients each day. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Gordon Duguid U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Again, the way that the USAID is approaching its contracting is one that has been looked over by the current director, and they are focusing on accountability and transparency. |
Monday, February 15, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti's elite sees business opportunities emerging from reconstruction |
| Author/Source: | Juan Forero The Washington Post |
| Brief: | For some Haitians, it is a cruel irony that a business community they consider clannish, corrupt and responsible for the country's backwardness could be spearheading efforts |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Problems linger despite improvement in Haiti aid distribution |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles, Trenton Daniel And Frances Robles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Despite daily progress reports of a country slowly on the mend, aid organizations and the international community that rushed into Haiti after the massive earthquake are now grappling with the harsh reality |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Doctors Haunted by Haitians They Couldn’t Help |
| Author/Source: | Deborah Sontag The New York Times |
| Brief: | Now back in their antiseptic, high-tech offices in the United States and elsewhere, the medical professionals who initially flew to Haiti’s rescue are haunted by their experiences |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | TRANSCRIPT: Haiti relief press briefing with Gen. Doug Fraser, Dr. Rajiv Shah |
| Author/Source: | Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah, General Douglas Fraser U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Today on the ground supporting Haiti there are roughly 13,000 U.S. military men and women supporting the efforts here in Haiti. Of that roughly 6500 are on the ground in Haiti. We brought a lot of capability, a lot of flexibility to Haiti to deal with the |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Service members in Haiti remember fallen Airman |
| Author/Source: | Spc. A.M. LaVey U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Air Force Lt. Col. Ken Bourland, 37, of Birmingham, Ala., was the Caribbean desk officer for U.S. Southern Command and was visiting Haiti Jan. 12 for an official meeting with Haitian defense and security counterparts. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US forces scale back Haiti relief role |
| Author/Source: | James Anderson And Jonathan M. Katz Associated Press The Houston Chronicle |
| Brief: | Great gray ships have been leaving behind Haiti's battered shores as thousands of American troops pack up their tents. The mission, however, is far from over |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. firms want part in Haiti cleanup |
| Author/Source: | Martha Brannigan And Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | It's unclear at this point who will be awarding the cleanup contracts, but there is big money to be made in the rubble |
Sunday, February 14, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USS Gunston Hall completes mission in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (SW/AW) John Stratto U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | For the three weeks the ship supported Operation Unified Response, Gunston Hall's deck department transported ship's crew ashore, manned the flight deck for 50 helo refuels, ran crane operations to load humanitarian and relief supplies onto the embarked l |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Navy doctors, corpsmen join international team at Haitian field hospital |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Hendrick L. U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The field hospital, an initiative by the Dominican Republic, is an international effort. In addition to Carter Hall medical staff, medical professionals from the U.S., France, Germany, Cuba, Brazil and other countries volunteer. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Logistics Soldiers provide unique capability in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | 7th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Approximately 900 Soldiers assigned to the 7th Sustainment Brigade, based at Fort Eustis, Va., are deployed to Haiti in support of Operation Unified Response. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Marines build 400-patient medical facility in Port Au Prince |
| Author/Source: | Lance Cpl. David Beall U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Initially this facility will ease the strain on the USNS Comfort and other naval vessels that are at capacity for medical patients. Rotating those no longer in need of critical care on U.S. ships to an interim facility makes space for those still in need. |
Friday, February 12, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Human Trafficking, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Adviser to Detained Americans in Haiti Is Investigated |
| Author/Source: | Marc Lacey, Ian Urbina The New York Times |
| Brief: | The police in El Salvador have begun an investigation into whether a man suspected of leading a trafficking ring involving Central American and Caribbean women and girls is also a legal adviser to many of the Americans charged with trying to take 33 child |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Video: As Haiti Toll Revised to 230,000, Journalist Reed Lindsay Reports on Scarcity of Aid in Devastated Port-au-Prince |
| Author/Source: | Democracy Now |
| Brief: | Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said it would take another ten years to rebuild Haiti and admitted officials have no clear plan for relocating the one million Haitians made homeless. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | After 1 month of chaos, Haitians help themselves |
| Author/Source: | Jonathan M. Katz Associated Press The Houston Chronicle |
| Brief: | Haiti's endlessly resilient people are struggling to recreate their lives. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Situation in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Kenneth H. Merten U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We are at one month beyond the Haiti earthquake, and we thought it was a wonderful opportunity having Ambassador Ken Merten here in Washington this week to bring him down just to kind of really give you a sense from the ground view of what is happening in |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Remarks to the Press |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Our major concern right now is shelter, particularly getting people into appropriate shelter before the rainy season starts. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Port-au-Prince aftercare facility receives first Comfort patients |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Jackson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Three patients arrived at the facility, which consists of a constellation of tents on a large field. The facility was established to create a transitional environment for aftercare treatment and rehabilitation of patients. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USS Underwood back home after supporting initial response to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Leah Stiles U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | They were one of the first military assets to arrive at the battered country. The "Jaguars" of HSL-60 flew over 170 hours delivered 850 cases of food, 850 cases of water, flew 84 medevac missions, transported close to 600 personnel and moved ove |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Saving life and limb: A critical care nurse's story from Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Airman 1st Class Joe McFadden U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Using the embassy as their central site to treat patients, military medical teams set up the building's conference room for surgeries. |
Thursday, February 11, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. paving way to rebuild Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | A commission to oversee Haiti's recovery from the Jan. 12 earthquake could be led by former President Bill Clinton. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti faces money, labor problems reconstructing buildings wrecked by earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Juan Forero The Washington Post |
| Brief: | About 20 percent of the capital city's buildings were destroyed, but an even greater percentage left standing are so unsafe that they will have to be fixed before they can be occupied or will have to be torn down. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Mobility Airmen deliver rapid response to aid Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Air Mobility Command U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Since the mobile aeromedical staging facility team arrived, they have helped to aeromedically evacuate more than 155 Haitians and Americans back to the U.S. for medical treatment. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Amphibious unit works non-stop to support Haiti relief |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Martin Cuaro U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | As part of Operation Unified Response, the crew of Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 2 has been working non-stop from dropping off a Marine Air-Ground Task Force assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), to carrying approximately 300 tons of cargo to K |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Navy helicopter squadron adapts as mission in Haiti evolves |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Martin Cuaro U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | According to HSC-22, the overall statistics for the detachment since arriving on station with Bataan Jan. 18 include 137 medical evacuations, the distribution of 118,130 pounds of supplies and 85,226 pounds of food and water. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Earthquake relief in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | If the U.S. has the best trained and most equipped development agency in the world, the foreign aid we deliver and implement will foster sustainable development, enabling the governments of these countries to have the infrastructure and capacity to better |
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region, Ecuador, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Una iniciativa por Haiti |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | La gestion del presidente Correa logro que la Unasur mostrara su rostro mas amable para socorrer al sufrido pueblo haitiano. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti quake death toll rises to 230,000 |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Haiti's government says around 230,000 people died in last month's earthquake, 18,000 more than its previous estimate. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Military civil affairs team meets with local leadership in Cap Haitien |
| Author/Source: | Tech. Sgt. Victoria Meyer U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | A civil affairs team from the Joint Forces Special Operations Component Command met with the delegate of Cap Haitien Feb. 5 to discuss the city's current capabilities and how the team can assist the local government. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Hospital ship Comfort works to expand care capability |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Timothy Wilson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Personnel from USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) scouted possible helicopter landing zones near Cange, Haiti Feb. 8 that would expand the hospital ship's capability to transfer and receive patients injured in the earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of Haitian |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Transition to return tower to Haitian controllers begins |
| Author/Source: | Tech. Sgt. Larry W. Carpenter Jr. U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Having the Haitians working with the U.S. forces is the beginning of a process to eventually have ATC operations completely turned over to the Haitians and airport authorities. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Logisitics in Haiti: A different kind of mission |
| Author/Source: | Sgt. 1st Class Dave McClain U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | While the ESC is still managing logistics and distributing supplies, the same basic mission it had in Iraq, this is the first time the unit is deployed as part of a humanitarian relief effort. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | In Haiti's tent cities, quake 'mayors' fill a void |
| Author/Source: | Jim Wyss, Frances Robles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Haitians have created leadership structures in the camps to provide aid, medical care and other needs of fellow campers. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Americans Jailed in Haiti Plead for Aid From U.S |
| Author/Source: | Ian Urbina The New York Times |
| Brief: | The 10 Americans detained on kidnapping charges are pleading for the United States government to do more on their behalf and for the news media to focus on them less. |
| Location: | Haiti, South America Regional |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | El presidente de Haiti pide a Unasur tiendas de campana para dar cobijo a un millon de personas sin hogar |
| Author/Source: | ABC (Spain) |
| Brief: | Prèval agradece a los paises sudamericanos que preparen ayuda a largo plazo pero advierte que la emergencia ahora esta en los afectados que duermen sin techo |
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Haiti |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Natural Disasters |
| Colombia Category: | Relations with Neighbors |
| Title: | Haiti studies Colombian town for quake rebuilding |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Markey Reuters |
| Brief: | Haitian Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime visited Armenia in Colombia's coffee region, where a decade ago an earthquake killed at least 1,200 people |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | In Haiti, Recovery Hinges on Fixing Government |
| Author/Source: | Ray Suarez NewsHour PBS |
| Brief: | The focus of the effort has to be not just in brick-and-mortar construction, but in institutional reconstruction, so that, in the end, we have a stronger Haitian government |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Fake Food Coupons Spread in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Marc Lacey The New York Times |
| Brief: | The United Nations said Monday that counterfeiters had begun printing fake tickets to gain access to free rice distributions, complicating giveaways that are meant for the hungriest Haitians. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti earthquake relief efforts are still falling short |
| Author/Source: | Peter Slevin BBC Mundo The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Nearly one month after a powerful earthquake brought this country to a halt, Haiti is tumbling headlong through a crisis that has not begun to abate, with evidence everywhere that current relief efforts are falling short. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Kidnapping of Haitian children was no act of charity |
| Author/Source: | Eugene Robinson The Washington Post |
| Brief: | True charity would have been to help those families care for their children -- not to put them in a bus and drive them away. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Army South first responders return from Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Ms. Arwen Consaul U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The team, made up of Army South engineers, departed San Antonio on Jan 13, to work with governmental and non-governmental organizations to assess the damage in Haiti and to build the deployable Joint Command and Control Center, which would later be the he |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Aerial images of Haiti proving critical to relief efforts |
| Author/Source: | Master Sgt. Dale Yates U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | To date, the efforts produced more than 700 unclassified images that helped identify such items as displaced people, major damage to infrastructure and clear ground routes, helping prioritize short- and long-term relief efforts. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USNS Comfort assists UNICEF in finding hope for Haitian youth |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chelsea Kennedy U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Comfort is working closely with members of UNICEF, Red Cross and the Haitian Institute of Social Welfare to ensure that the children do not get lost in the aftermath of this tragedy. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Overseas Military Missions, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Recognizing U.S. Southern Command team in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NB) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | General Fraser showed great leadership in overseeing this mission, and the courageous service of the men and women at SOUTHCOM has the gratitude of not only the medical team and others from Creighton University, but the people of Haiti as well. You are al |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US must be Haiti's watchdog |
| Author/Source: | Mark Weisbrot The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | Ahead of the rainy season there are huge concerns over shelter, sanitation and human rights. The US has a responsibility to help |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haiti Earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | The United States should join in the upcoming international donor conference that will shape a long-term plan to help put Haiti back on its feet in a way that is sustainable in the years ahead. |
| Location: | Haiti, South America Regional |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | South American countries seek unity to help Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Hugh Bronstein Reuters |
| Brief: | This time investors will watch to see if leaders can unite behind the cause of Haiti, soften their political rhetoric and set the stage for better trade |
| Location: | Haiti, South America Regional |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | South America leaders hold Haiti aid summit |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Haitian President Rene Preval is there to set out his country's needs and priorities to fellow leaders |
| Location: | Haiti, South America Regional |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | South America Leaders Propose Haiti Aid, Avoid Strife |
| Author/Source: | Alexander Cuadros Bloomberg BusinessWeek |
| Brief: | South American leaders agreed to provide $300 million in aid to Haiti at a summit in Ecuador after skirting regional disputes |
Monday, February 8, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Experts: Haiti chaos may lead to rise in drug trafficking |
| Author/Source: | Chris Hawley The Arizona Republic |
| Brief: | Smugglers are already back at work after the quake, apparently undeterred by the hundreds of foreign troops in Haiti as part of aid efforts |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Carrier Strike Group making a difference in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | There are now 172 Sailors from the Strike Group taking part in Operation Unified Response, most of them living in tents and working in the Joint Task Force (JTF) Haiti command center just outside the United States Embassy in Port-Au-Prince. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Red Cross workers on hospital ship Comfort vital to treatment of Haitians |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Timothy Wilson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Medical care is provided around the clock on Comfort, and the volunteers never depart from their drive to lend their energies and spirits to give hope to those injured. |
Friday, February 5, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region, Haiti |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | In Haiti, U.S. has chance to improve image in Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Juan Forero The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Although the mission is undoubtedly a humanitarian one, it has also presented the Obama administration with a political opportunity. With Latin America closely following relief efforts, a successful mission - larger, more expensive and more complex than t |
| Location: | Entire Region, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | In Haiti, U.S. has chance to improve image in Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Juan Forero The Washington Post |
| Brief: | "Haiti is good for the United States, to show its humanitarian side," he said. "It's perfect for this administration, which is Democratic and liberal." |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | UN expert criticises IMF loan to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse Th Financial Express |
| Brief: | A UN expert Thursday criticised the International Monetary Fund for giving Haiti a 114 million dollar loan, and called for the urgent cancellation of the island's debts. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | A Manufacturer's Debt to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Richard Sandomir The New York Times |
| Brief: | Companies willing to invest there know it will take substantial time to rebuild the infrastructure, institutions and housing needed to make major investments pay off in a country plagued by extreme poverty and sky-high unemployment. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Human Trafficking, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti's Baby Lift: Save the Children, Don't Just Take Them |
| Author/Source: | Tim Padgett Time |
| Brief: | The sort of verbally agreed upon transfer of minors that took place between Haitian families and the U.S. missionaries "is too often how child trafficking occurs in Haiti." |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Child abduction issue 'distracts' from relief - Haiti PM |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | The Haitian prime minister has warned that the case of 10 US missionaries charged with child abduction is a "distraction" from earthquake recovery. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Workers struggle to save Haiti history buried in rubble of tax office |
| Author/Source: | Scott Kraft The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | More important, this building was where property deeds were registered - a crucial function in any country but especially so in Haiti, where land ownership disputes are common. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitian Quake Brings More Money and Scrutiny to a Charity |
| Author/Source: | Stephanie Strom The New York Times |
| Brief: | Virtually unknown by Americans before an earthquake struck Haiti last month, the tiny charity founded by the performer Wyclef Jean stands to be one of the biggest winners in the fund-raising bonanza that is the hallmark of the Internet age. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Volunteers Fly Supplies Into Hard-to-Reach Areas |
| Author/Source: | Shaila Dewan The New York Times |
| Brief: | The flights, by volunteer pilots flying mostly at their own expense, are part of an unconventional relief mission to get supplies to some of Haiti's most remote areas. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Aircrew, maintainers tackle Haiti relief effort |
| Author/Source: | Master Sgt. Stan Coleman U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Aircrew and maintenance Airmen representing the Air Reserve component are tackling the Haitian relief effort as part of their Coronet Oak rotational deployment. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti aid chopper crashes, two Americans killed |
| Author/Source: | Reuters Yahoo! |
| Brief: | Two Americans were killed when their helicopter, which was participating in aid and recovery operations in earthquake-hit Haiti, crashed in the Dominican Republic. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitianos venden alimentos donados en mercado negro |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press, Reuters La Nacion (Costa Rica) |
| Brief: | En un vecindario de Puerto Principe en donde aproximadamente 12.000 personas viven en carpas fabricadas con sabanas, en un valle ubicado bajo su antiguo barrio en la ladera de un cerro, traficantes venden tazas de arroz provenientes de sacos de asistencia |
Thursday, February 4, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Rebuilding Effort in Haiti Turns Away From Tents |
| Author/Source: | The New York Times |
| Brief: | A move toward "transitional shelters" - built eventually with lumber and some steel - would give people sturdier structures and more flexibility. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Foreign Food Aid Trickles Into Haiti's Black Market |
| Author/Source: | Reuters The New York Times |
| Brief: | Street vendors are openly selling rice by the cup from bags stamped with U.S. flags. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitian mother, child reunited on USS Nassau |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Desiree Green U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | A newborn baby girl delivered to USS Nassau (LHA 4) in a box from Haiti's University Hospital was reunited with her mother aboard the ship Jan. 31. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | COMMENTARY: What do Haiti, the Super Bowl and Iwo Jima have in common? |
| Author/Source: | By Col. Bryan Salas U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Instead of armed defenders on the beaches, ports and airfields in Port au Prince, the enemy is the passage of time and the geologic whim of Mother Nature. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Marine reunites with family in earthquake ravaged Haiti |
| Author/Source: | 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | When a devastating earthquake rocked Haiti, Jan. 12, Lance Cpl. Malarky Gene could only think of one thing - was his wife and son still alive? |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Air Force EMEDS provides care, compassion to people of Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Capt. Nathan D. Broshear U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The 87 Air Force medical Airmen, primarily from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., are staffing the 24th EMEDS team's 20-bed hospital with a wide range of skill sets; gynecology, urology, pediatrics, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, family practice, and n |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Video: 'Ten detained Americans is a distraction from the 1 million Haitians suffering on the streets' |
| Author/Source: | The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | The Haitian prime minister expresses his frustration at the media attention on American missionaries accused of illegally trying to take children out of the quake-hit country. |
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Exploitation Nation? |
| Author/Source: | Katie Paul Newsweek |
| Brief: | NEWSWEEK's Katie Paul chatted with Klein about what she -and the 20,000 people who have already joined the No Shock Doctrine for Haiti group on Facebook- are watching out for this time around. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Frustration Growing at Haiti Aid Bottlenecks |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | "There's no top-down leadership... And since the Haitian government took control of our supplies, we have to wait for things even though they're stacked up in the warehouse." |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USAID official: Emergency assistance still hasn't reached many Haitians |
| Author/Source: | Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Three weeks after a powerful earthquake destroyed Haiti's capital, aid officials are still seeking to reach hundreds of thousands of desperate people who apparently have not received food and shelter from an expanding international aid operation. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Operation Unified Response transitions to Haitian self-sustainment |
| Author/Source: | Army Spc. A.M. LaVey U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Haiti is beginning to transition to the next phase of its involvement in Operation Unified Response, following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked the island nation of Haiti about two weeks ago. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Kansas Air Guard members build hospital in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Air Force Tech. Sgt. Emily Alley U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The Comfort is working at its full operational capacity; officials say it would take a hundred more such ships to treat all of the estimated injured people in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Mission Assurance Analysts Impact Haiti Restoration and Recovery Efforts |
| Author/Source: | John J. Joyce U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Navy analysts and engineers are providing a constant real-time analysis of critical infrastructure in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean nations that is proving vital to U.S. Southern Command's (SOUTHCOM) planning and management of Hai |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Who's paying for Haiti? |
| Author/Source: | Josh Rogin Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | State Department P.J. Crowley told The Cable that the redirection of funds from other countries' accounts was necessary but would not have consequences on the ground unless there is a long delay in receiving supplemental funding. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Rebuilding Haiti transparently |
| Author/Source: | The Washington Post |
| Brief: | So far, the vast majority of the aid, more than 85 percent, has been earmarked or promised but not yet delivered or disbursed. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Assistance to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | H.R. 417 would support the capacity building efforts by the Haitian government and civil society, supporting President Obama's commitment to support the people of Haiti in their efforts to not only recover from this human catastrophe but also to hold on t |
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | At a Haiti school's reopening, a lesson in sharing |
| Author/Source: | Mitchell Landsberg The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The school's owner clashes with post-earthquake squatters who have no place to call home. Nearby, young students eagerly wait to regain one normal aspect of their lives. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S., U.N. team with Haiti to expand humanitarian assistance effort |
| Author/Source: | Army Sgt. Richard Andrade U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "Not only do we work with the government of Haiti but we work with the United Nations so there is no duplication of efforts with other donors." |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Airmen deliver Soldiers, communication equipment to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Collier U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The airborne Soldiers are expected to provide additional airport security for operations at Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | H.Res. 1021, Expressing condolences for the people of Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | Despite the rapid and robust global response, the months and years ahead will be extremely difficult for the people of Haiti. In the short term, the United States must continue to provide food, water, shelter, and medicine to victims of this catastrophe. |
Monday, February 1, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti warned to brace for another big quake |
| Author/Source: | Mica Rosenberg Reuters Thomson Reuters Foundation |
| Brief: | Increased pressure on the fault after the quake could unleash another of the same size or bigger, although scientists acknowledge they have no way of knowing exactly when or where it will hit. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | DOD News Briefing with Gen. Fraser from Miami, Florida |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | From a United States perspective and from a Department of Defense, we now have over 20,000 men and women in the theater supporting that effort, a little over 6,000 people on the ground in Haiti. But those numbers only reflect those men and women who are a |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Comfort cares for man buried alive after 13 days in rubble |
| Author/Source: | Communication Specialist 3rd Class Timothy Wilson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | A Haitian man survived with no food, sunlight or human contact for 13 days was rescued from the rubble and is being treated by medical staff aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Docs on USS Bataan deliver earthquake 'miracle' |
| Author/Source: | USS Bataan Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The medical professionals aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) successfully delivered 8 lb. 3 oz. Theo Joe, a baby boy, at approximately 4:40 p.m., Jan. 30 in the ship's hospital, following a medical evacuation to Bataan from |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Aircraft carrier Carl Vinson completes Haiti relief efforts |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The ship and its embarked air wing distributed more than 1.1 million pounds of emergency humanitarian aid for earthquake survivors in Haiti since commencing operations in support of Operation Unified Response. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US military says medical airlifts from Haiti resume after suspension of several days |
| Author/Source: | Jennifer Kay Associated Press Chicago Tribune |
| Brief: | Exactly what led to the suspension on Wednesday of medical evacuation flights was unclear, though military officials have said some states refused to take patients. |
Saturday, January 30, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Guantanamo base critical to Haiti relief supply chain |
| Author/Source: | Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | GTMO is located approximately 170 miles northwest of Haiti, making it the logical staging area to allow the quick movement of supplies from the United States to Haiti. The naval station provides air and sea receiving and transport capabilities, and once t |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Marines, UN workers team up to distribute food in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Cpl. Michele Watson U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "I think the relationship between the Sri Lankan UN and U.S Marines is vital to the success of our mission in humanitarian assistance in Haiti," said Gunnery Sgt. James Baum, company gunnery sergeant, Ground Combat Element, SCMAGTF. |
Friday, January 29, 2010
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Haiti |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | In Disaster, Tensions Ease Between an Island's Rivals |
| Author/Source: | Marc Lacey, Simon Romero The New York Times |
| Brief: | It would be impossible to erase all this resentment in just two weeks. But the thousands of Dominicans helping the victims here may have begun chiseling away at the divisions. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Building Haiti's Economy, One Mango at a Time |
| Author/Source: | Paul Collier, Jean-Louis Warnholz The New York Times |
| Brief: | Haitians need something more fundamental than relief from the present situation; they need jobs that they can count on for years ahead. For this, the private business sector is essential. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | The U.S. should welcome Haitians in |
| Author/Source: | The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The U.S. government already has approved the visa petitions of some 55,000 Haitians whose family members are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, but they face long waits to enter the country because of annual limits set by Congress. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Recognizing Penobscot Bay Medical Center |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | Through the generosity of the hospital, three doctors--general surgeon Douglas Cole, urologist Lars Ellison, and orthopedist Kevin Olehnik--departed Maine en route to Haiti last Wednesday. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | As Aftershocks Continue, Haiti Ponders Rebuilding |
| Author/Source: | Ray Rivera The New York Times |
| Brief: | Even as tent cities here swell, aid groups say an estimated 10 percent of the city's residents (a number that may be vastly understated) are camping in yards and streets next to their homes, marking off what they hope is a safe distance. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Air Force Reservist with Haitian ties supports relief mission |
| Author/Source: | Dana Lineback U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | As soon as the call came out for volunteers to participate in Haitian earthquake relief efforts, 940th Wing reservists here stepped forward. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Kentucky Airmen move supplies through Dominican Republic |
| Author/Source: | Army Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Operating out of Barahona, Dominican Republic, the unit has set up an airfield to provide an alternative for air traffic bound for Haiti’s overwhelmed Port-au-Prince airport. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Coordination center synchronizes military, civilian Haiti relief efforts |
| Author/Source: | 2nd Lt. Victoria Brayton U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The U.S. military is taking on a supporting role in the humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti, facilitating the responses of many international humanitarian relief organizations. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U-2 reconnaissance aircraft to provide imagery support in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | 9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | A U-2 launched from Beale Air Force Base Jan. 27 to provide critical imagery support in the ongoing humanitarian relief mission in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USS Bataan provides vital link to Haiti relief |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Samantha Robinett U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The relief supplies have been quickly moving into Haiti from Sacagawea and USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198) where they're brought ashore by amphibious ships like Bataan operating off the coast. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | AFSOUTH officials guide Air Force Haiti relief effort |
| Author/Source: | Tech. Sgt. Eric Petosky U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Airmen from across the United States are participating in the Haitian earthquake joint relief effort while the as Air Forces Southern members guide the effort from hundreds of miles away in the Arizona desert. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti's seaport capacity increases, Fraser says |
| Author/Source: | Jim Garamone U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Conditions in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti, continue to improve day by day, but a tremendous need still exists, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said today. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Seabees headed to Haiti to support relief ops |
| Author/Source: | Rob Mims U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | This flight is the first of four that will move the Seabee team to Haiti where they will clear a path for aid coming into the country. |
Thursday, January 28, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Human Trafficking, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Anti-Trafficking Efforts in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The Department of State is actively involved in addressing the potential for trafficking in persons, particularly children, in post-earthquake Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | [PDF] Testimony of Dr. Paul Farmer |
| Author/Source: | Paul Farmer Deputy Special Envoy For Haiti United Nations U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | Today, Haiti is facing what we would term “acute on chronic” problems |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Navy ship's team describes Haiti aid efforts |
| Author/Source: | Judith Snyderman U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | "I don't think you could find a ship that has a better composition of people and things on board for this type of mission." |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | [PDF] Statement of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) Committee On Foreign Relations U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | We should consider an enhanced role for the United Nations in the daily operations of the Haitian government until the country is stable and less dislocated |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | [PDF] Statement of Sen. John Kerry |
| Author/Source: | Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) Committee On Foreign Relations U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | We cannot be satisfied to simply return Haiti to the unsustainable conditions of the past |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | [PDF] Testimony of M. Rony Francois, MD |
| Author/Source: | M. Rony Francois, MD Public Health State Of Georgia U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | The escalation of frustration is already inducing violence and if resources are not more strategically distributed throughout the country, the security situation on the ground could rapidly deteriorate |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | [PDF] Reconstructing Haiti |
| Author/Source: | James Dobbins Rand Corporation U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | Of the two operations, humanitarian relief is clearly the more urgent, but post conflict stabilization and reconstruction is ultimately the more important |
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
| Location: | Argentina, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, Peacekeeping |
| Title: | Argentina enviara 200 cascos azules mas a Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Natasha Niebieskikwiat Clarin (Argentina) |
| Brief: | Por una decision del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas para reforzar el contigente internacional de militares en Haiti, Argentina evalua el envio de 200 cascos azules. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Statement on State Department Family Members Killed in Earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today paid tribute to members of the State Department family killed in the earthquake in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Website provides instructions for transporting aid |
| Author/Source: | Army Maj. James Lowe U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Transportation Command's Web site now provides instructions for nongovernmental or nonprofit organizations seeking airlift or sealift for humanitarian supplies and relief personnel. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Air Force team cares for Haiti victims in flight |
| Author/Source: | Derek Kaufman U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | A three-person medical team from the Wright-Patterson Medical Center here is providing aeromedical evacuation support for victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Army Reserve readies only aviation brigade for deployment to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The only Army Reserve aviation brigade, the 244th Aviation Brigade, has geared up to deploy troops and equipment to Haiti in support of Operation Unified Response. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | JTF-Haiti commander visits medical treatment center in Killick |
| Author/Source: | Lt. J.g. Rick Chernitzer U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The commander of Joint Task Force (JTF) Haiti visited the medical triage and treatment center in Killick, Haiti, Jan. 25 to observe the teamwork of the Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Haitian volunteers providing care to earthquake victims. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | 5,000-bed hospital to increase haitian medical capacity |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. and international relief workers in Haiti are developing a 5,000-bed hospital in the capital of Port-au-Prince to increase medical capacity as the country struggles to recover two weeks after a devastating earthquake struck. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Emergency Aid to American Survivors of the Haiti Eathquake Act |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Niki Tsongas U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | I offer my strong support to S. 2949, a bipartisan measure to extend temporary aid to help the thousands of Americans who are evacuating Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that occurred on January 12, 2010. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US military commitment to helping Haiti |
| Author/Source: | General Doug Fraser U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | I firmly believe their path to recovery lies in a whole-of-society approach— an approach that draws upon the immense capacity, compassion and camaraderie of the international community of nations. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Officials consider role in Haiti beyond immediate relief |
| Author/Source: | John J. Kruzel U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The U.S. government still is figuring out the details of American assistance in Haiti, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said here today, noting that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and President Barack Obama discussed the issue yesterday. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Ejercito de EU preve salir de Haiti en tres a seis meses: Pentagono |
| Author/Source: | Reuters La Jornada (Mexico) |
| Brief: | La milicia estadunidense tiene el compromiso de entregar apoyo humanitario y de seguridad hasta que otras organizaciones asuman el rol. |
| Location: | Haiti, Peru |
| Category: | Defense Cooperation, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Cascos Azules de la Compania Peru en Haiti, seran recibidos el jueves |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | Su labor fue la de ayudar activamente en las labores de seguridad, rescate y remocion de escombros, tras el fatidico terremoto. |
| Location: | Haiti, Peru |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Briefing by Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Regarding the current situation in Peru, I can report that right now, as of late morning, there are no air operations ongoing due to bad weather. Our latest information is that there are still about 200 American citizens around Aguas Calientes. |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. and World responds to Haiti's earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | I especially want to thank our hemispheric neighbors, many of whom annually suffer from natural disasters and still struggle to overcome centuries of poverty. |
| Location: | Argentina, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Ayuda argentina al pueblo de Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Clarin (Argentina) |
| Brief: | Nuestro pais esta brindando una importante ayuda humanitaria en Haiti, no solo a traves de los Cascos Azules y que integran la fuerza multinacional de paz de la ONU sino tambien con asistencia sanitaria y apoyo gubernamental y civil. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti's creditors urged to cancel its foreign debts |
| Author/Source: | Harvey Morris, Benedict Mander, Robin Kwong |
| Brief: | But the government remains in debt to other lenders, including the InterAmerican Development Bank to the tune of $440m, Venezuela and Taiwan. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Fighting Starvation, Haitians Share Portions |
| Author/Source: | Damien Cave The New York Times |
| Brief: | The communal rationing, along with signs all over the city that say "S O S" and "we need food," suggests that the food crisis here is growing. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti seeks food and shelter so displaced residents can survive the coming weeks |
| Author/Source: | Glenn Kessler, William Booth |
| Brief: | Haitian President Rene Preval issued a communique saying his country needed 36 million emergency rations of food just to get through the next few weeks and 200,000 tents immediately. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Agreement on Effort to Help Haiti Rebuild |
| Author/Source: | Marc Lacey, Ginger Thompson The New York Times |
| Brief: | Concerned about corruption and wobbly Haitian leadership, international donors agreed Monday during a meeting in Montreal on a 10-year rebuilding effort. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | World Leaders Plan Haiti Funding Effort |
| Author/Source: | Gina Chon The Wall Street Journal |
| Brief: | The U.S. will host an international conference at United Nations headquarters in early March to raise money to rebuild Haiti, where the local economy is slowly starting to show its first signs of life. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haiti, moving forward |
| Author/Source: | John Kerry The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | The United States must lead the way in using this humanitarian crisis to begin reversing the poverty and environmental degradation that plagued Haiti long before this tragedy while continuing efforts to address corruption and strengthen governance. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Majority of Americans Oppose Allowing an Increase of Haitian Immigrants to the U.S. |
| Author/Source: | Bruce Drake Politics Daily |
| Brief: | The USA Today/Gallup survey said 53 percent of Americans oppose increasing the number of Haitian immigrants allowed into the U.S. while 41 percent support such a move. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Builders dream of a better Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mitchell Landsberg The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | A group of architects, engineers and urban planners has met every day since the devastating quake, discussing not how to rebuild but how to start anew. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haitian town destroyed -- and all but forgotten |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Petit-Goave, near the earthquake's epicenter, feels abandoned as aid focuses on Port-au-Prince. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | A Factory Sputters Back to Life in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Ray Rivera The New York Times |
| Brief: | The workers, almost all of them women, mistook the machines' vibrations for an aftershock and scrambled for safety outside under the locust trees. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USS Carter Hall onloads Haiti relief supplies during brief run to Guantanamo |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Hendrick L. U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) onloaded more than 400 pallets of water, food rations and medical supplies, as well as thousands of cots and tents to support Operation Unified Response, in less than 24 hours during a brief stop at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay (GTMO |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Military Drone Helps with Haiti Relief Effort |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Weber Politics Daily |
| Brief: | An RQ-4 Global Hawk provided images to determine the extent of the damage in Haiti and the "usability of its infrastructure." |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Poll finds support for long-term U.S. role in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Ken Dilanian USA Today |
| Brief: | More than six out of 10 Americans believe U.S. troops and relief workers should remain in Haiti until life is more or less back to normal. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Vinculan programa estadounidense con el sismo en Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Juan O. Tamayo El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La mayoria de las conspiraciones vinculan el sismo con el Programa de Investigaciones de Alta Frecuencia Ionica Activa (HAARP) en Gakona, Alaska. |
Monday, January 25, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti relief lacks leadership, says Italian expert |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | A senior Italian official has strongly criticised the Haiti earthquake relief operation. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti aid effort 'could have saved more' |
| Author/Source: | Rory Carroll, Tom Phillips The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | Thousands of lives could have been saved in Haiti if aid efforts had focused more on injured survivors rather than rescuing trapped people, it has been claimed, amid a sharp criticism of aid agency 'jostling'. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | As night falls, Haitians head into the streets |
| Author/Source: | Scott Kraft The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | A senior Italian official has strongly criticised the Haiti earthquake relief operation. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Epic task of rebuilding Port-au-Prince is beset by hard strategic questions |
| Author/Source: | Andres Viglucci, Scott Hiaasen The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | With so many obstacles, and no ready blueprint, the reconstruction of Port-au-Prince will be a minefield of hard questions with no clear answer. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Italian official condemns Haiti earthquake relief as 'vanity parade' |
| Author/Source: | Peter Walker The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | 'The Americans are extraordinary, but when you are facing a situation in chaos they tend to confuse military intervention with emergency aid, which cannot be entrusted to the armed forces.' |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Migration, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Debate grows in aftermath of quake: Should U.S. let more Haitians immigrate? |
| Author/Source: | Amy Goldstein, Peter Whoriskey The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The tension between U.S. policy and the desperation to leave is spawning a debate in Washington over whether the government should let more Haitians in. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | On-the-Record Briefing En Route Montreal, Canada |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| Brief: | 'There's a tremendous desire to help, but we've got to create the mechanisms so that it can be done effectively, and we've got to get the Haitian Government's capacity to lead put together.' |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | On Street Tracing Haiti's Pain, Survival Goes On |
| Author/Source: | Deborah Sontag, Ginger Thompson The New York Times |
| Brief: | Over a quarter-mile stretch, Avenue Poupelard, a residential and commercial strip in the area called Nazon, offers a panorama of life in the ruins of the Haitian capital where a stricken heart still beats. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USS Normandy serving a dual role in Haitian relief efforts |
| Author/Source: | Christen N. McCluney, Defense Media Activity U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The Norfolk-based guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) is supporting relief efforts in the air, at sea and ashore for victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Combat air traffic controllers crucial to Haiti earthquake relief |
| Author/Source: | Staff Sgt. J. Paul Croxon U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Thanks to a specialized group of Airmen used to working in austere locations, airlift operations in Haiti were possible in the initial days after an earthquake destroyed much of the capital, and since then these Airmen have made the airport one of the bus |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | U.S. Marines, Sailors provide medical support in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Cpl. Michele Watson, Special Contingency Marine Air Ground T U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | A multitude of Haitians lined up for blocks, waiting patiently in the hot sun to receive medical treatment offered by Navy Corpsmen as Marines provided security at the make-shift hospital they had set up in the crumbled city. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | In Haiti, U.S. troops embrace a new role |
| Author/Source: | Mitchell Landsberg The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Haitians might be expected to be resentful or fearful of a large contingent of U.S. soldiers and Marines. So far that does not seem to be the case. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Clinton for Haiti Czar? |
| Author/Source: | The Wall Street Journal |
| Brief: | As one Haitian told me, if the country is ever to develop it needs 'to rely less on cronyism and more on transparency and the vast resources of the Haitian expat community.' That would disqualify Bill Clinton. |
Sunday, January 24, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Teleconference Briefing on Relief Efforts in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Gordon Duguid U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We continue to look at the health issue, water, and of course shelter. And as I've mentioned, all the work that we do is based on the needs identified by the government of Haiti. There are daily meetings that we attend, that the Prime Minister articulates |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | One brick at a time: Marines assist Haitians in cleaning up destruction |
| Author/Source: | 2nd Lt. Nicole Teat, Special Contingency Marine Air Ground T U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Marines with the Security Cooperation Marine Air Ground Task Force, Africa Partnership Station 10, currently operating from the New Missions Compound, spent the morning helping the surrounding community move damaged structures and clean up piles of rubble |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Navy aircraft carrier playing major roll in relief efforts |
| Author/Source: | Christen N. McCluney U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | USS Carl Vinson is playing a pivotal role for operations in support of relief efforts in eathquake-striken Haiti. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USS Fort McHenry supports Canadian ship in Haiti relief |
| Author/Source: | Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW) Rachael L. Leslie U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The amphibious dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) began providing amphibious transportation support to the Canadian ship HMCS Athabaskan (DDH-282), off the coast of Haiti Jan. 22. |
Saturday, January 23, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, three Navy ships arrive in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is off the coast of Haiti this morning staged to support ongoing relief efforts in Haiti after a 7.0 earthquake devastated the country last week. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Bataan LCACs land ashore, deliver more relief in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mass Communication Specialist Seaman 3rd Class Ash Severe, U U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Amphibious Relief Mission ships Bataan, USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43), USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) and USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) are deployed to provide military support capabilities to civil authorities and to help stabilize and improve the situation in the wak |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Air Force, FAA use Russian aircraft to move mobile air traffic control tower to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Tech. Sgt. Brian Bahret U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration officials paired with a Russian airlift contractor Jan. 21 to deliver a mobile air traffic control tower to the Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport n Port-au-Prince. |
Friday, January 22, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | A look at foreign quake aid for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | The Canadian Press |
| Brief: | Governments have pledged nearly $1 billion in aid to Haiti, according to an Associated Press estimate, including $575 million from the European Union's 27 nations |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti's Hidden Hope |
| Author/Source: | Mark L. Schneider The New York Review Of Books |
| Brief: | Making Haiti safe again depends not only on getting Haitian and international police onto the streets, but on enforcing rule of law in a country where the judiciary and penitentiary system barely functioned. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haiti effort to get a boost from added airfields, seaport reopening |
| Author/Source: | Scott Kraft, Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The move is aimed at taking some of the burden from the Port-au-Prince airport. Now run by the U.S. military, it is handling 120 to 140 flights a day, but there is a waiting list of 1,400 flights |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Signing of Memorandum of Understanding for Police Training with NYPD |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The dedication in their assistance to the earthquake-ravaged country has been heroic, as evidenced in the videos of the rescue of the 8-year old boy from the rubble by the New York City Search and Rescue team. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Tropas de EEUU piden a periodistas abandonar aeropuerto de Puerto Principe |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | Alrededor de las 17.00 hora local (23.00 GMT), tres soldados del Ejercito estadounidense informaron este miercoles a los periodistas que debian abandonar el campamento sin dar explicaciones, a pesar de los requerimientos de los informadores |
Thursday, January 21, 2010
| Location: | Bolivia, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Morales Deplores US 'Occupation' of Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | President Evo Morales said Wednesday that Bolivia would seek U.N. condemnation of what he called the U.S. military occupation of earthquake-stricken Haiti |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Haiti's elite hold nation's future in their hands |
| Author/Source: | Tracy Wilkinson The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | They are mostly light-skinned, multilingual entrepreneurs with a dismal reputation for profiting handsomely on the backs of the poorest people in the hemisphere |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Some Frank Talk About Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Nicholas D. Kristof The New York Times |
| Brief: | Far more than most other impoverished countries - particularly those in Africa - Haiti could plausibly turn itself around |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Aid agencies, hit hard by earthquake, struggle to cope in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The United Nations and aid groups are trying to run a relief operation for 3 million people while coping with missing staff and family members, damaged warehouses and files buried in shattered buildings |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Rich countries must prepare long-term effort to help Haiti |
| Author/Source: | The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The United States and other major international donors should prepare for that long-term commitment to help with humanitarian, logistical, engineering and nation-building tasks but without raising false hopes that outside aid alone will deliver Haiti |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Aftershocks |
| Author/Source: | Évelyne Trouillot The New York Times |
| Brief: | We sleep; we listen to the radio; we exchange information. Mostly, we have been trying to stay alive and sane since that Tuesday afternoon a week ago when the earthquake changed our lives forever |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | In Haiti quake, a tragedy that defies logic |
| Author/Source: | David Ignatius The Washington Post |
| Brief: | There's some truth in all of the secular explanations. But they leave out the most painful and perplexing factor we encounter whenever terrible things happen: bad luck |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Earthquake aftershock in Haiti spurs exodus from Port-au-Prince |
| Author/Source: | Manuel Roig-Franzia, Dana Hedgpeth, Theola Labbe-DeBose The Washington Post |
| Brief: | A sign that appeared outside an open mass grave at the city's largest cemetery read: 'Please. The hole is filled. It can't take more bodies' |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Acceleration of income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | I applaud Secretary Napolitano's decision to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitian nationals living in the United States, which will enable these individuals to stay in the U.S. for up to 18 months past their visa expiration. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Acceleration of income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | It is also in the United States' best interest, especially pertaining to foreign policy, to help, in any capacity, the relief and ultimate recovery of the nation of Haiti; it will also help govern the global message of "goodwill", which our Pres |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Expressing the sense of the Senate on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | r. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening actions or debate, and that any statements related to the resolution be printed in the |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haitian Orphans |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | It is our duty to be their voice and to make sure that if they survived the earthquake that they also survive this critical period of time while resources are trying to be delivered and a sense or order is trying to be restored. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Accelerating the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of H.R. 4462, an act to accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti, received from the House and a |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haitian adoptions |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | It is very frustrating to see, again, some of the similar, almost eerily similar scenes from having lived through Katrina and Rita, Gustav, and Ike along the gulf coast. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Fact Sheet #9, Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 (PDF) |
| Author/Source: | USAID |
| Brief: | According to January 20 reports by the U.N. Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Government of Haiti (GoH) Directorate for Civil Protection has announced that the January 12 earthquake resulted in 75,000 deaths, 200,000 injuries, |
| Location: | Haiti, Venezuela |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Hugo Chavez accuses U.S. weapon for causing Haiti's earthquake |
| Author/Source: | Andrew Moran Digital Journal |
| Brief: | Hugo Chavez is blaming the US for causing the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti as part of testing a 'tectonic weapon' that can cause eco-type disasters, according to Russia Today. |
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
| Location: | Bolivia, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Bolivia exige reunion de emergencia a ONU para repudiar ocupacion militar de EEUU a Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Adalid Cabrera Lemuz ABI |
| Brief: | Por considerar 'injusta, inhumana y oportunista' la ocupacion militar de Estados Unidos a Haiti bajo el pretexto de asistir a los damnificados del terremoto, Bolivia solicitara a la Organizacion de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) una reunion de emergencia para |
| Location: | Brazil, Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mision de ONU en Haiti, sobrecargada: Lula |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El presidente brasileno advirtio a su colega estadounidense Barack Obama que la mision de paz no tiene capacidad para cuidar de la seguridad y al mismo tiempo distribuir alimentos y agua |
| Location: | Dominican Republic, Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | As airports are readied for Haiti aid, deliveries hit bottleneck |
| Author/Source: | Joe Mozingo, Tracy Wilkinson, Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The U.S. expects to have airports in Jacmel, Haiti, and the Dominican capital ready to receive aid shipments within 48 hours. Meanwhile, a lack of fuel hinders the supply chain |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | The big three that need to forgive Haiti's debt |
| Author/Source: | Annie Lowrey Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | As of last year, Haiti was paying $50 million a year just to service its debt, not even to pay down the principal. It owed hundreds of millions - more than a quarter of its GDP |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Banks pledge aid to help Haiti relief effort |
| Author/Source: | Sharlene Goff, Megan Murphy Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | At least two investment banks have raised even higher sums by handing over a day's commission rather than making a cash donation |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Aftershock hits Haiti; U.S. troops guard convoys in Port-au-Prince |
| Author/Source: | William Booth, Dana Hedgpeth, Debbi Wilgoren The Washington Post |
| Brief: | U.S. and Canadian military forces have been designated to guard food distribution sites as they open, freeing the U.N. security forces to patrol and keep order. The additional U.N. peacekeeping personnel approved Tuesday will bring the total in Haiti to 1 |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Tiny Steps Toward Basic Services |
| Author/Source: | Ginger Thompson, Deborah Sontag The New York Times |
| Brief: | Haitians have jumped in as well to help the relief effort, to slowly begin the gargantuan task of digging out and carrying on |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Philip J. Crowley |
| Brief: | We have 43 urban search-and-rescue teams still on the ground in Haiti. They continue to have ongoing operations, including seven teams continue to operate at the Hotel Montana. And to date, there have been 122 persons rescued recently, including 43 by the |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | American Forces Help Expand Aid Efforts Beyond Port-au-Prince |
| Author/Source: | Stephen Kaufman America.gov |
| Brief: | About 800 U.S. Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are now beginning to deploy into a hard-hit zone west of Port-au-Prince, close to the epicenter |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Tough Love Needed for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Jonah Goldberg National Review |
| Brief: | Haiti will never get out of grinding poverty until it abandons much of its culture |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Aid backlog easing; toll at 72,000 |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles, Trenton Daniel, Lesley Clark, Frances Ro The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Amid the rising chorus of criticism about the lack of coordination, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten told The Miami Herald that obstructed roads and collapsed buildings made aid delivery a logistical nightmare |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | One Week After the Quake: Haiti at the Tipping Point |
| Author/Source: | Tim Padgett Time |
| Brief: | Because frustrations are percolating amid the disjointed relief campaign, the big question is how long the U.S. and the international community have before that controlled desperation bursts into furious disorder |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | The Keys to Rebuilding Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Alex Altman Time |
| Brief: | I've been advocating for a long time - and I've gotten traction with a number people in Haiti, and discussed it with President Clinton and Paul Farmer and people within the State Department - an idea like the approach of Roosevelt in the New Deal |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Joint Communique of the Governments of the United States and Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | President Preval and Secretary Clinton jointly reaffirm that the Governments of Haiti and the United States will continue to cooperate under this shared understanding to promote the most safe and effective rescue, relief, recovery and reconstruction effor |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Update on Developments in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | I've spoken with a number of leaders and foreign ministers from across the region and the world, and we are keeping in touch about our ongoing commitment to Haiti. And I will be traveling to Montreal, Canada on Monday to attend a meeting of donor countrie |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Expressing Condolences to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1021) expressing condolences to and solidarity with the people of Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haitian Children |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | I am thankful that on Monday, January 18, Secretary Napolitano announced her authorization of the use of humanitarian parole for orphans who are eligible for adoption in the United States. But as I noted in my letter, the magnitude of this disaster clearl |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) U.S. Senate |
| Brief: | I will work with my colleagues here in the Senate and with the administration to make sure these people have the tools and resources they need to be a part of the recovery. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Record Crowds Cause Unrest at Distribution Point |
| Author/Source: | Fred W. Baker III U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Part of the problem, officials said, is that word is getting out around Port-au-Prince that this is the place to come for food and water. Yesterday’s estimate put 25,000 people at the base of the hill waiting for some sort of relief |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Gates Orders Additional Ship, Eyes More Capability for Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Donna Miles U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Gates announced that he signed deployment orders this morning to send a port-clearing ship equipped with cranes to get the port operating within a week or two to speed up aid distribution |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Comfort receives first Haitian earthquake patients |
| Author/Source: | Jim Garamone U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | In a life-saving move, a Navy helicopter transported two severely injured Haitians to receive treatment aboard this hospital ship: a 6-year-old boy and 20-year-old man - had received care on the USS Carl Vinson, a U.S. aircraft carrier |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | USNS Comfort arrives in Haiti, begins treating earthquake victims |
| Author/Source: | Jim Garamone U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | As the ship approached shore in the capital city here, sailors aboard the Comfort felt the magnitude 6.1 aftershock. The jolt collapsed a pier in Port-au-Prince that medical planners were hoping to use as an evacuation point for injured Haitians |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Marines arrive ashore in Haiti |
| Author/Source: | 22nd MEU Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Approximately 125 Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit came ashore near Leogand, Haiti today beginning relief operations in a pasture that is now being used as a landing zone for helicopters loaded with supplies |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Aftershock Shakes Haiti; No Apparent Damage |
| Author/Source: | Fred W. Baker III U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Local reports put the aftershock at magnitude 6.1, but it lasted only a few seconds just after 6 a.m. According to reports it was centered about 35 miles northwest here. No damage was apparent here |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Navy prepositioning ship to deliver aid to Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Military Sealift Command Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | U.S. Navy Maritime Prepositioning Ship USNS 1ST LT Jack Lummus is loading cargo at Blount Island Command, Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 18-19 in support of international disaster relief efforts underway in Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake. Lummus is loa |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Fact Sheet #8, Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 (PDF) |
| Author/Source: | USAID |
| Brief: | On January 20, USAID's Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) contributed an additional $20 million to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) Emergency Operation for Haiti, increasing USAID/FFP's overall contribution to $68 million to date. At present, expedited |
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Fear of the poor is hampering Haiti rescue |
| Author/Source: | Linda Polman The Times (UK) |
| Brief: | The Haitian people seem to scare aid workers more than Somali warlords, Darfuri Janjawid or Afghan Taleban |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US Troops Land at Haiti Presidential Palace |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | The latest casualty report, from the European Commission citing Haitian government figures, doubled previous estimates of the dead to approximately 200,000, with some 70,000 bodies recovered |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Smaller Towns Struggle As Help Is Slow to Arrive |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Rhoads The Wall Street Journal |
| Brief: | Although aid has been slow getting to the capital, it is even worse in places like Jacmel |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | USS Gunston Hall arrives in Haiti to assist earthquake victims |
| Author/Source: | Lt. J.g. Rick Chernitzer U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) anchored off Haiti Jan. 18 to begin providing relief supplies and assistance as part of Operation Unified Response. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Haiti Task Force Commander Notes Progress |
| Author/Source: | Judith Snyderman U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Humanitarian assistance efforts in Haiti are improving every day despite enormous challenges, the commander of Joint Task Force Haiti said. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: |