Aid Piling Up at Un's 'Cold Beer'compound ; Smashed Infrastructure and Red Tape Stop Helpers Getting Food Andwater to Desperate Haitians - but the Un has Fixed Wi-Fi and a Bar for Staff

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IT IS a tale of two cities. One has icecold beers, internet access, thousands of men and billions of dollars' worth of gleaming machinery, together with piles of food, blankets, generators and other aid relief from around the globe.

This is the heavily fortified UScontrolled Port-au-Prince airport and neighbouring United Nations compound.

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Aid Piling Up at Un's 'Cold Beer'compound ; Smashed Infrastructure and Red Tape Stop Helpers Getting Food Andwater to Desperate Haitians - but the Un has Fixed Wi-Fi and a Bar for Staff

The other is the devastated city of Port-au-Prince, where the stench of death fills the air and starving people are in utter despair, still in need of the basic necessities of food, water, shelter and medical care.

Never, in more than 20 years of covering disasters, has the void between the might and power of the Westernised world and the penniless and pitiful people they have been mobilised to 'save' been so glaringly obvious to me.

This nearly two weeks after the earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital, leaving an estimat...

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