Haiti aid 'uncoordinated', president warns

Madrid - Aid relief for Haiti is suffering from a "general lack of coordination", the country's president warned in an interview published in Spain Friday. Haitian President Rene Preval told El-Pais that aid is starting to reach the victims and the country is beginning to function again.

"We have already buried more than 70,000 victims," he told the Spanish daily from Port-au-Prince.

"Petrol stations already have more petrol than on previous days. Some banks have already opened," Preval said.

The January 12 earthquake caused "the vast majority of official buildings" to collapse "with documents inside," Preval explained.

Asked whether the US intervention in Haiti amounted to a kind of colonization, Preval said his country was receiving "help from many countries, not only from the United States."

The president dismissed criticism that he had cut an absent figure in the aftermath of the disaster, saying he went out to see the damage every day.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/305175,haiti-aid-uncoordinated-president-warns.html.