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Haiti's Earthquake: LatAm's Biggest Stories of the 2010s

By Roberto Simon

Manmade problems are still exacerbating a tragedy provoked by natural disaster.

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WHO WAS INVOLVED: Nature, the Haitian population, the international community.

WHAT HAPPENED: It was almost 5pm on a warm January Tuesday in 2010 when Haitian history took an abrupt turn. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter just outside the capital Port-au-Prince — and its more than 50 aftershocks – ravaged the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere to an extent that 10...

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