Preval returns to the Presidential Palace

Haitian President Rene Preval visits the crumbled Presidential Palace for the first time since the earthquake. After quietly walking the grounds, Preval greeted Haitians clinging to the Presidential Palace gates, some of them angry over the government's inability to provide timely relief. Herald video by Walter Michot, edited by Emily Michot

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• Rene Preval
• Haitian President
• Haiti
• Miami Herlad
• earthquake
• disaster
• ruins

[GmanZouk]

@vertus12 The problem was that there where no building codes in haiti. People built shacks all over the place without structure due to being poor and needed just a roof over their head. However, the weak government did not regulate anything. And, it is just not the Preval, it is a problem on going for years. To be earthquake resistent a home need to have metal inside the cinder blocks for reinforcement. In haiti, only people with money would be able to afford such a reinforcement.

[vertus12]

fot pep haitian yan pran lari pou koiuri deye preval, si yo pa se sa pill kaka sa yo ap rete la pou yo ka vole tout lajan yo bay pou rekonstri payi. tout mounn we sa yo te fe nan problem Gonaive, epi li kle ke bann solopri sa pat ginyin okinn plan pour Haiti.Neg sa ya pat alle lekol nin se amba ban ke yo talé.