Haitian ambassador to U.S. : Infrastructure of island nation poor in best of times . Raymond Alcide Joseph calls quake `` a catastrophe of major proportions '' and says it will take years for Haiti to recover from the damage caused by last month's 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. Ambassador to Haiti Timothy M. Carney told CNN that Port-au-Prince was particularly at risk because it grew rapidly from a population of about 250,000 in the mid-1950s to more than 2 million today , all with little oversight . OAS says lack of any building standards in Haiti makes residents vulnerable .
Haitian ambassador to U.S. : Infrastructure of island nation poor in best of times . Raymond Alcide Joseph calls quake `` a catastrophe of major proportions '' and says it will take years for Haiti to recover from the damage caused by last month's 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. OAS says lack of any building standards in Haiti makes residents vulnerable .