Desperation as bureaucracy slows aid effort in Haiti

Anger and desperation was mounting today as unused aid stacked up inside quake-shattered Haiti.

Desperation as bureaucracy slows aid effort in Haiti

Anger and desperation was mounting today as unused aid stacked up inside quake-shattered Haiti.

The world has flooded Haiti with donations after the January 12 earthquake, but bottlenecks at key transport points and scattered violence, including an armed group's attack on a food convoy, have slowed the distribution of food and medicine from the port, airport and a warehouse in Port-au-Prince's Cite-Soleil slum.

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