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YouTube  Haiti: Challenges On the Path Ahead  Address by CRS
President Ken Hackett to the Baltimore Council on Foreign
Affairs.  Let me begin by saying that I am not going to give you
an uplifting talk about the great work CRS is doing in Haiti.
That's not to say that we are not doing great work, some of it
quite uplifting and inspirational. But clearly that is not the
story of Haiti a year after the earthquake. This is a tough one.
Over the last year, it got even more complex: with an outbreak
of cholera - first time that bacteria has been in Haiti in 50
years; with Hurricane Tomas dumping huge amounts of rain on the
hundreds of thousands still living in tents; with the
government, which is supposed to be in charge of coordinating
the hundreds of millions of dollars of aid flowing into Haiti,
basically coming to a standstill. Though just in the last few
days there has been some hopeful political movement. But with
Jean Claude Duvalier returni