Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week announced a major infrastucture investment plan valued at roughly $880 billion. News of the plan could provide a boost to the political campaign of his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, ahead of the October 2010 election.
A Pfizer vice president looks at how multinational companies can best mobilize resources to assist recovery efforts in countries such as Haiti and Chile.
Months after the January 12 earthquake, a photojournalist finds piles of rubble but a city still teeming with life and activity.
In the wake of a massive Chilean earthquake, new President Sebastián Piñera took office March 11, reshaping his earlier agenda and promising to make the country’s reconstruction his top priority.
"There is a significant opportunity in the wake of the earthquake to build Haiti into a modern, economically stable, environmentally-sound nation," says COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth.
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile on February 27. AS/COA Online shares links to more information and ways to support relief efforts.
"Haiti will quite literally need to be rebuilt from the ground up," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth. The United States, aided by partners in the international community, "should work together under a special new UN mandate to restore the nation and put it on a new path to long-term, sustainable development. This is where the true test of U.S. leadership will come," he added.
