Red Cross Holds a Press Conference In Haiti. It Doesn’t Go Well.

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Haitian reporters demand answers from the Red Cross but don’t get many.

Red Cross Holds a Press Conference In Haiti. It Doesn’t Go Well.
Justin Elliot, Pro Publica
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Haitian journalists grilled an American Red Cross official Wednesday about the group’s Haiti program, but the official declined to provide any new details of how it spent nearly $500 million donated after the 2010 earthquake.

The Red Cross called a press conference, held at the Le Plaza Hotel in downtown Port-Au-Prince, in response to ProPublica and NPR’s story published last week revealing a string of Red Cross failures in Haiti.

The American Red Cross official at the press conference was repeatedly interrupted by Haitian reporters frustrated that he would not give specifics on its spending:



The official, Walker Dauphin, criticized our story for making “misleading allegations” and said that “in total, more than a hundred projects were implemented.”