A Look at Haiti Before the Quake

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Literanista January 18, 2010

Haiti has always been in a state of dire emergency.

The poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere:
80% poverty rate
70% unemployment
52% illiterate

It’s sad that it took a major catastrophe for the world to notice.

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