tonight i'm pleased to be joined by pierre labossiere. one of the most respe8!2jñ progressive voices on haitian politics in a long time. social just it advocate and pierre labossiere, honored to you have on this program. >> a pleasure. thank you. >> what do you make of haiti? five years after this massive earthquake? >> you know, it's very terrible situation and particularly people as we speak now on the streets of haiti demonstrating, they are demonstrating this morning. they were demonstrating their anger. the fact that so many -- so much that could have been done for the people has not been done, and many people on the streets. many people still don't have a decent shelter, and conditions of the country, the economic conditions have worsened terribly. the earthquake, as terrible it's a terrible natural disaster. however, what has happened to compound the problem has been man-made, and there is no excuse noor situation. >> come to the man-made problem that have compounded the result of the earthquake, as you mentioned in a moment but i'm trying -- i suspect ma