Brazil´s South-South humanitarian actions: Paradigm shift and domestic consequences

The high magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, devastating much of the country’s already fragile infrastructure, became the greatest challenge for the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the country, the MINUSTAH. The tremor, which killed more than 316,000 people, with an equal number of wounded, also produced more than 600,000 Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) and affected virtually the entire country, which is under foreign intervention since 2004.