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GA2G makes some good points there. If you are donating but don't know much about Haiti's history then spend a while finding out. There is nothing natural at all about the destruction caused or Hait'is inability to cope with it. However, don't start with Jon Henley's shameful piece in the Guardian yesterday which failed even to mention the overthrow of Aristide by the US government. Haiti is a paradigm of the evil of Western colonialism, racism, theft and hypocrisy. To de-politicise any response to the earthquake is to maintain our own self-serving ignorance and to ensure that the vast majority of Haitians will come out of this situation no better than they went in.