By PAISLEY DODDS
Associated Press Writer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Defying pleas to wait for Haiti’s reconstruction, families lugged heavy bundles of wood and tin up steep hillsides Friday to do the unthinkable: build new homes on top of old ones devastated in the earthquake.
The defiance reflects growing anger and frustration among Haitians who complain that their leaders – and any rebuilding plans – are absent more than two weeks after the Jan. 12 earthquake damaged or destroyed thousands of homes in the capital.
Few tents have been supplied, rubble remains strewn in many streets, and signs begging for help in English – not Haitian Creole – dot nearly every street corner in Port-au-Prince.