@dlowan,
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Do you think that there is much chance that this tragedy might mean that some such undertaking is taken on?
The destruction is to total (for example, they are already planning to move the capital elsewhere), it practically becomes an opportunity.
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It's extraordinarily hard and expensive and LOOOOOOONG TERM to help a country remake itself, I would have thought?
Well, yes. But probably much less expensive than some wars in Central Asia and some necessary bailouts.
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I was reading about the country recently...it seems it is a true nightmare in many ways.
It seems to have been a nightmare even before the quake. Now it's like Dante's inferno. No food, no water, no electricity, no gasoline, no working airport or ports. No organization whatsoever. On one hand, people trying to rescue survivors working with their bare hands (have yet to see a crane or something like that on the photos). On the other, rampage & riots (people making barricades with corpses). On the most recent picture I saw, there was a man atop the debris of what it's said to have been a supermarket, pointing his rifle to other people. Don't know if he was sent there by the owner or wants to hoard the goods below for his own profit.
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Do you think richer countries in Latin America might pitch in?
The ones I've seen doing the most are Mexico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic neighbours. I imagine Brazil's help is on the way.
We have sent an envoy. Since there is no air-bridge, he's currently aboard a Hospital-Ship Mexico has sent, and expects to arrive on Monday (Tuesday for Oz).
