Aid flows a bit more quickly into Haiti; challenges remain

By MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON
Associated Press

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s entrenched poverty, insecurity and lack of basic infrastructure are posing huge challenges to helping the victims of a powerful weekend earthquake. Aid began flowing more quickly Thursday into the southwestern peninsula where the weekend quake struck, killing more than 2,100 people. Private relief supplies and shipments from the U.S. government and others were starting to arrive. But the need was extreme, made worse by the rain from Tropical Storm Grace, and people were growing increasingly frustrated with the slow pace.