Those paragraphs predicted what the most reliable reports say is going on now: I See No Evidence of a Government Presence Here. The Haiti money problem is being solved, but the chaos prevents help, in time, to most Haitians trapped under rubble or dying of treatable injuries. Nothing at all is being done or will be done about the non-functioning, failed state, which derives whatever legitimacy of the bullet it has from UN enforcers with their own, neocolonial agenda. If anything the death-squad-aided government has just picked up new enforcers, U.S. ones, to add to the UN occupation force. Let's see how that goes (NOT fucking very WELL).

Haiti before the earthquake

Haiti long neo-colonial history continues: decades of the bloodsucking U.S.-backed Duvaliers, then a brief 1980s Aristide spring, and then back to continuing U.S. neocolonialism -- Aristide's U.S.-backed ouster in 1991, his restoration in 1994 on condition he impose neoliberalist "plan of death" on Haiti, a brutal U.S. economic embargo and Aristide's eventual ouster in 2004 -- featuring U.S.-backed death squads that still roam free today -- because he was not neoliberal enough, then U.S. puppet and Duvalieresque kleptocrat Gérard Latortue's incredibly harsh neoliberal regime. Finally, he was ousted and in the 2006 elections an Aristide ally, René Préval, was elected, but he has turned out to feeble, cooperating with the U.S. (that's now Mr. Obama, btw) neo-liberal "plan of death" program.

So who really rules Haiti, if not the failed state:

In fact, the U.S., UN and other imperial powers effectively bypassed the Préval government and instead poured money into NGOs. "Haiti now has the highest per capita presence of NGOs in the world," says Yves Engler. The Préval government has become a political fig leaf, behind which the real decisions are made by the imperial powers, and implemented through their chosen international NGOs.

The real state power isn't the Préval government, but the U.S.-backed United Nations occupation. Under Brazilian leadership, UN forces have protected the rich and collaborated with--or turned a blind eye to--right-wing death squads who terrorize supporters of Aristide and his Lavalas Party.

The occupiers have done nothing to address the poverty, wrecked infrastructure and massive deforestation that have exacerbated the effects of a series of natural disasters--severe hurricanes in 2004 and 2008, and now the Port-au-Prince earthquake.

Haiti before the earthquake

And what are the occupiers against? Aristideism: "land reform, aid to peasants, reforestation, investment in infrastructure for the people, and increased wages and union rights for sweatshop workers." I.e., the same thing they're against everywhere: more for you and me, less for the investor class. Let's finish with a little bit of hope, More Than Aid, Haiti Needs Allies:

Haitians, it is true, need all the help they can get, but, as Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, warns, “crises are often used now as the pretext for pushing through policies that you cannot push through under times of stability. Countries in periods of extreme crisis are desperate for any kind of aid, any kind of money, and are not in a position to negotiate fairly the terms of that exchange.” Desperation ought not to be abused by oligarchic governments to drown Haiti into more debt or hold that sovereign nation economically hostage. Desperation ought not to be abused to enforce even more draconian mandates that only promote further instability. Desperation ought not to be abused to enhance specific political policies that only service imperialistic ambitions. Unless one still believes in fairy tales, it’s almost unthinkable to assume many foreign governments, who’ve already come bearing gifts, don’t see this as an opportunity to accomplish all three.

. . . Only a courageous countervailing movement that stands strong for the dignities and humanities of Haitians—during the aftermath and beyond: when TV channels have moved on to the next circus, when people have stopped giving and relief organizations are running out of aid—would save Haiti from an even greater earthquake already rattling the ground beneath.

Haiti needs Aristideism, an end to neoliberalist economic brutality. That's what needs to be imposed on Haiti, Mr. and Ms. Hollywood Celebrities, what its common people have long voted for and courageously fought and died for.