haiti

After Haiti's devastating earthquake last year, Americans gave nearly $2 billion to hundreds of charities. But one year later, much of that money remains unspent, and criticism is mounting that the international aid response has not moved fast enough to alleviate survivors' suffering.

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The U.S. has deployed 22,000 troops to Haiti, many of them distributing food and providing medical aid after the massive earthquake in January.

But as Haiti begins to get back on its feet, questions are arising about how long U.S. forces will stay.

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The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck a country whose buildings were barely built to engineering standards and were hopelessly fragile in the grip of such a strong quake.

Haiti has no national building code, and many structures may not have been sound to begin with.

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