Brittany's Reviews > The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

This book breaks my heart, but I'm glad my husband put it in my hands. I learned so much about Haiti and could not put it down near the end. If this is an audiobook, I might have made it through the middle part quicker if I was listening. I was shocked by some of the stuff I learned- how did I not know Wyclef Jean attempted to run for president in their last election? The amount of mistrust in government or any person affiliated with politics in Haiti caused them to elect a musician (with zero experience in politics) in their last election.

It was sad to hear that after the quake in 2010, not out of ill-intention (for the most part), but out of pure and absolute disorganization and miscommunication of several countries it made an already weak state, even weaker.The amount of misspending and broken promises of aid will (or at least it did with me) fill you with rage but still unable to come up with an answer. The cholera outbreak after the quake with a VERY obvious answer in front of everyone's face just added to the rage that I already had while reading this. They are going through another election right now and it sounds eerily similar to the election after the quake in 2010.