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January 12, 2010 - 9:45 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2010-01-12 22:25:28

I was in Haiti in ~1980 as a medical student pseudo-medical missionary (I went with a group of real medical missionaries and did scut work; started IVs, took out sutures, acted as a surgical assistant).

There is no shortage of one story huts, but there are a few presumably well-constructed buildings such as the presidential palace, where the Duvaliers (Papa Doc and Baby Doc) had their headquarters. You can see from current raw news feeds that the presidential palace is more or less flattened. There will be a lot of dead people in the capital where the hotels and “decent” buildings are situated.