The longest and most visible lines in Haiti’s capital are not for food, water or gas. They are for money.
Earthquake survivors need cash and are waiting hours outside wire transfer businesses, including Western Union, that are starting to reopen.
“I have no money,” 32-year-old Anderson Bellegarde said Thursday, in his sixth hour standing outside a UniBank money wire branch.
The business in Carrefour, near the epicenter of the earthquake and about eight miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince, was operating at a crawl. A line of Haitians loudly pleaded with guards, putting their hands around the blue iron gate and urging to be let in more quickly to access funds wired to them from beyond the disaster zone.
Very little currency trickled into Haitian hands Thursday. There was little financial movement in the disaster zone, with most banks remaining shut.
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