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The star of “Lethal Weapon” and former ambassador to United Nations Goodwill spoke during a visit to the Caribbean nation, where he saw the camps housing some of the hundreds of survivors of the magnitude 7.0 quake that left homeless .

“We must understand the magnitude of this,” Glover told Reuters before a meeting with Sean Penn, who owns a charity that operates in one of the biggest fields of survivors, located in the golf capital of the shattered Petionville.

“This is (…) the photographs that I remember seeing, seeing the remains, the outcome of the Second World War” said Glover. The actor and Penn were joined by U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Democrat of California.

Leogane Glover had visited before, a town southwest of Port au Prince and near the quake”s epicenter, which suffered widespread devastation in the disaster.

The Haitian Government has indicated that more than 300,000 people may have died during the quake, which is seen by experts as the worst natural disaster deadliest in recent memory.

Quoting the International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Glover said the scale of the catastrophe in Haiti required a “Marshall Plan” Plan for recover.

With this, the actor referred to the great assistance that the United States injected in Europe after the Second World War to assist with recovery after years of conflict.

Glover added that the disaster in Haiti should provide an opportunity for the states of the Western world to help its poorest member.

“I think the world is still paying attention, “he said ahead of a meeting on Haiti charity, which will be March 31 in New York.

(Reporting by Pascal Fletcher, editing by Spanish Javier Leira)