It does, does it? Pray tell, where did the poverty come from then...could it be: expropriations by formerly extremely stable (because utterly autocratic) governments now replaced by unstable pseudo=democracies. Haiti is a man-made disaster, precisely the right use of that term now so terribly misused by the present terrible Administration. Evil humans made Haiti what it is and thousands of hapless Haitians suffer just about continually as a result.
In addition, one only has to look at the other two-thirds of Hispaniola to see that proper rule of law, honest government and true democracy will weather disasters while tyrannies and dictatorships only produce rubble and death.
Trust Yahoo to studiously look past the point.
Actually the Dominican Republic had its share of tyranny and dictators. Google the Trujillo dictatorship for more info. Also I don’t understand why the Admin Mods did not leave up an earlier, much longer post and comments under Breaking and Front Page News. See it here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426839/posts