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?