Disaster upon disaster

Haiti | Geography plus poverty makes for persistent hardship across much of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere | Sarah Kiewel and Priscilla Santos

With high latitude tropics, terrain rising to over 8,000 feet above sea level, and severely degraded environment due to clearcutting for firewood and other practices, Haiti is one of the world's most natural disaster prone countries.

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