BY JOEL BRINKLEY; MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Dozens of governments and aid groups are scheduled to meet at the United Nations later this month to pledge millions, perhaps billions, in assistance to Haiti. My advice to many of those donors: Stay home.

Sure, everyone wants to help rebuild Haiti and finally turn the country into a thriving, self-sustaining state. But after decades of effort, many of the donors themselves have concluded that it’s a Sisyphian task without end.

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By Glenroy Blanchette

HYC – Hydrocarbons and HYT – Hydrothermal deposits throughout Haiti. One of the poorest nations on Earth sitting on 1.5 trillion barrels of Black Gold.

On 12^th January 2010, a Magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred ten miles off the coast of Haiti and resulted in the deaths of over 200,000 inhabitants, millions made homeless, and hundreds of thousands dying without access to food, water, shelter and medical treatment.  It was more devastating than the Indian Ocean tsunamis and five times deadlier than the 1972 earthquake that destroyed Nicaragua’s capital.

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