Feature: Securing Haiti Soldiers vs doctors in post-earthquake Haiti

Within hours of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Cuban doctors, Chinese search and rescue teams, and Venezuelan medical professionals were on the ground.

When the U.S. military took control of Port-au-Prince Airport, however, they prioritized landing soldiers instead of humanitarian supplies, according to humanitarian organizations like Medecins sans Frontières (MSF), and Amnesty International.

The militarization of disaster relief has led to harsh condemnation of what critics call an American-led occupation of Haiti...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was unable to secure US approval to land in Port-au-Prince in January even though Haiti is a member-state.

Instead, they have had to form their base for disaster relief in Jamaica.

Read the full report by Andrew Crosby and Ajay Parasram in The Dominion