that is really the problem. >> jonathan katz last month the u.s.ed a $2.2 billion campaign to wipe out cholera over the next decade in haiti. the epidemic was widely blamed on u.n. troops and killed thousands of people. this is the u.n. humanitarian coordinator. >> the latest is since october 2010, we have heard about 620,000 infections and about 7700 deaths. it is an incredible academic. it is a terrible tragedy for every haitian family who has lost members. if there is a point of encouragement to be taken, is that this year in 2012, we've seen a real drop-off in the rate of infections and the rate -- the mortality rate. for example, this year we have had 117,000 cases, which is effectively to say, up until the end of last year, with the equivalent of 25,000 cases a week. this year, it has come down to about 2500 cases a week. 10%. and the number of deaths is about 12% of the total. >> that was the humanitarian coordinator on cholera. >> once again, with the u.n. this is the situation of this and that, how was the play, mrs. lincoln? there was a l

my name is jonathan katz. i was the associated press correspondent in haiti from 2007 to 2011, which included the afternoon of january 122010, when at 4:53 in the afternoon a massive earthquake struck and destroyed most of the country's capital, including the house that i was in. i have written a book about how the world came to save haiti and left behind. it is the story of what really happened on january 12, 2010, the earthquake, and over the extremely flawed response that followed. a frank answer it has not gone well. there was a feeling after the earthquake that a lot of help was coming. a lot of it was very visible. a military airplanes in the sky, boats in the harbor, trucks appearing in the street carrying all kinds of aide. the phrase that bill clinton used was to build back better, and it is obvious to anybody on the ground in haiti right now that did not happen. there has been barely any building back. what has been built back is certainly not better, and most people are having a harder time than bef

jonathan katz writes about haiti's reconstruction. >> there has not been a concerted effort to help build a strong, independent, competent haitian government and civil society that is able to handle its own problems. >> reporter: while more than a million people have moved out of evacuation camps, nearly 300,000 remain. amnesty international calls the housing shortage catastrophic. another continuing crisis is health care. >> cholera has been disastrous. over 6% of the population has been affected by it. over 7,500 have been killed by it. >> reporter: last year doctors without borders treated 20,000 cholera patients here. drawing lots of attention now is a recent announcement from canada, haiti's second largest aid supplier, that it is freezing further assistance citing corruption, a weak government and lack of progress. the haitian president agrees progress is slow, but blames private aid groups which got almost all the recovery money. >> we're not lobbying for haiti to get all the money. but we are lobbying for haiti to have enough money where our institutions are not weakened. >> repor

. >> now on booktv's jonathan katz a reporter who lived in haiti during the 2010 earthquake when it was destroyed by talks about the failure to rebuild the country even though billions of dollars were pledged and many aid agencies took part in the effort. it's about 45 minutes. >> hello? thank you for the introduction. that was very cool. this is my first book so if i look like i'm really not accustomed to this it's because i'm really not accustomed to it. so the book is called "the big truck that went by" and there is a bit of spoiler in the subtitle, how the world came to save haiti and left behind a disaster. sorry if this is breaking news but that is what i do. i'm going to read to you by little bit about it and talk about it a little bit and i hope that we have a good discussion that this topic usually provokes. so i'm going to start by reading from chapter 1, the end. before he do that i'm going to get myself some water. talk amongst yourselves for a moment. it's actually really funny, this grand of water is in the book. how did i know that? i would have picked that section and tr

and also the director of the earth institute in haiti and the foreign press haiti correspondent jonathan katz a big disaster. >> and i spent the weekend, and the weekend for me is monday and tuesday, reading your book, because in part, i remain compelled to the images that we saw after haiti, but also as a new or leanian in or leanian this the disaster and the attempt to rebuild and i kept think of the connection of the fragility of the space, itself, and then of the state. so it is both the buildings fall, and such a fragile government state there before the earthquake as well. >> yes, obviously, three years ago today. it is very somber day for everybody in haiti and everybody who was there and loves the country. but it is also a very frustrating day, because there was so much hope, there was such big promises made that things would get better and not just that things would get back to the level they were before the earthquake struck, but that the country would be better off than it had been before, and the sad truth is that were another earthquake were to happen today in the same spot on th