How foreign aid has failed Haiti

He also includes dollops of history, background that anyone with a rosy view of U.S. intervention should read carefully. In one of the most interesting sections, Katz describes investigating what led to the cholera outbreak in Haiti months after the earthquake, proving almost beyond any doubt that the illness was imported by U.N. troops – something for which he says the world body has yet to be held accountable.

One hopes that the policymakers involved in helping Haiti read this book and take it to heart. The people of Haiti certainly deserve better than what they’ve been getting.

Nahal Toosi is an editor on the Europe desk of the Associated Press. This review is from the Associated Press.

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