San Juan and the 1944 Earthquake

Questions

• What factors made the San Juan earthquake so destructive?
• How did Peron use the earthquake as an opportunity?
• What values was the new San Juan supposed to embody?
• What kinds of people were involved in imagining the reconstruction?
• What limitations did Peron face?

Haiti's Earthquake

"I believe before this earthquake Haiti had the best chance in my lifetime to escape its history -- a history that Hillary and I have shared a tiny part of. I still believe that. The Haitians want to just amend their development plan to take account of what's happened in Port-au-Prince and west, figure out what they got to do about that, and then go back to implementing it. But it's going to take a lot of help and a long time." -- Bill Clinton, Jan. 16 2010

"But when we start the rebuilding effort, we want to do what I did with the President's father in the tsunami area. We want to be a place where people can know their money will be well spent; where we will ensure the ongoing integrity of the process." -- Bill Clinton

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The Japanese Tsunami

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