Danny Glover says Haiti destruction recalls WWII
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. (more…)