THE 2010 HAITI EARTHQUAKE: 13 BILLION DOLLARS AND NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT
Episode 135 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the January 12th, 2010 earthquake that killed between 160,000 and 250,000 people in Haiti, triggered the largest international aid response in history, and left Haiti fifteen years later in worse condition than before the earthquake struck.
This episode covers why Haiti was so catastrophically vulnerable — rooted in French debt, American occupation, and two centuries of deliberate economic extraction — why a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile six weeks later killed fewer than 800 people, how 12,000 NGOs flooded in with no…
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