The Big Truck That Went By
how the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster
by Jonathan M. Katz · first published 2013
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Published to glowing reviews, The Big Truck That Went By is a crucial look at a signal failure of international aid. Jonathan M. Katz was the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti on January 12, 2010, when the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the island nation. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed. More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a global
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I just finished reading The Big Truck That Went By [1] by Jonathan Katz. It's an amazing account on what happened after the earthquake has hit and why most development help didn't have the impact we had hoped for. One of the reason he touches is that…
on “In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief” ↗…enforcement, you'd have to be nuts to invest any serious money in building a house, because a gang would just take it from you. Classic development trap. Jonathan Katz talked about Corail/Cannan in The Big Truck That Went By, and he wasn't positive. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OZN6GM/ Published in 2013, but it doesn't sound like much has changed. 1: Port-au-Prince gets about twice as much rain as Seattle per year, and…
on “They call it Canaan: How 200K Haitians built a city on their own” ↗