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Humanitarian aid food distribution in Haiti leads to rioting

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06/21/2011
English

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Mónica Villamizar reporting from Haiti on the distribution of humanitarian aid. Food that was being supplied by the UN and other aid agencies was being looted by desperate people. The police could not keep control of the distribution, and the situation was getting increasingly dangerous and out of control. There was even a black market for humanitarian aid food products because the people are so hungry. Villamizar is an award-winning correspondent for Al Jazeera English based out of Washington, DC. ; She holds a masters degree in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. Besides her native Spanish, she speaks English, French, Italian, and Japanese. In 2006 she received a Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar award for best TV feature or report, for a series of reports on South Africa's peace process.