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|title=The Big Truck That Went By

|sort=Big Truck That Went By, The

|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan

|date=January 2013

|summary=An engaging eyewitness account of the quake in Haiti and the failure of the governments to solve the problems that followed.

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It was January 12, 2010 and AP correspondent Jonathan M. Katz was preparing to ship out of Haiti after spending the last two and a half years reporting about political instability, riots and disasters. He was preparing for a change of scene, a stint in Afghanistan, concluding that ''It sounded like a good place for a break''. Nature had other plans.