Hillary Clinton will not be in Haiti to help the people living there. She is representing the interests of US imperialism and militarism-those reactionary and criminal forces which are mostly responsibe for the current catastrophy in Haiti.

The deployment of troops has taken priority over the distribution of aid. As the Miami Herald reported Friday, "US air-cargo traffic was grounded to give the military airlift priority to bring moving equipment and the first 100 of a planned 900-paratrooper deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division from North Carolina."

UNICEF, which has massed relief supplies in Panama, sent a plane full of medical kits, blankets and tents, but was denied permission to land and forced to return to Panama.

Initial rescue operations were noticeably focused on aiding US citizens and other foreign nationals... Haitians were left to dig for their loved-ones and neighbors using their bare hands and pieces of rubble. ...

Haitians are conscious that the lives of foreigners are given more value than their own. "They were furious, though not surprised, that they were left to themselves to dig out the trapped, haul off the dead, beg for help for the dying," reported the Los Angeles Times.