U.S. officials are celebrating the official opening of a $75 million embassy compound in the Haitian capital.

Behind imposing walls and set back from the street on a former sugarcane field near the Port-au-Prince airport, the 10-acre compound features an atrium, space for more than 1,000 workers and a swimming pool.

U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson and other officials dedicated the facility Monday in a ceremony with ousted Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Eduoard Alexis and Cabinet members, who were fired by Parliament after food riots but have not yet been replaced.

Haiti has been without a prime minister or Cabinet since April 12.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-0624haiti,0,2903335.story

When i read this story i felt as if the Haitians are being left to fend for themselves while the US builds up its control. The US can obvisously afford to build a 75 million dollar building but cannot afford to give some of that money to help aid the Haitian people who are living in poverty and searching for food and fresh water. I read many of articles just liek this one, where money is going into the government but none of the money ever reaches the people. When will the people get to live like Haitians should live?

An array of human rights groups has strongly criticized the United States government, saying it withheld money meant to provide clean drinking water to Haiti as leverage for political change in the country. The activists, in a report released Monday, called the delay of $54 million in international loans to the Haitian government “one of the most egregious examples of malfeasance by the United States in recent years.”

years.”http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/world/americas/24haiti.html?ref=americas

The United States is constantly being ridculed for their lack of aid to the haitian people however with the economic crisis that is faced all over the world I do not know how the US was supposed to loan the Haitian governement anything. I sympathize with the haitian people but at the same time I realize the postisions of the American people. Something needs to be done in Haiti. Aid is a priority but the US is not following through like they should. I am constatnly contradicting myself on what to think and how we can help as Americans. haiti is struggling, but whos responsibility is it to fix the problem?