Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together in the face of Hurricane Katrina, ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.
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