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Sep 14th 2012, 22:13 by The Economist online
LEFT half in ruin for almost three years, Haiti’s National Palace is finally being knocked down. Yet while most Haitians are happy to see the eyesore go, many are less keen to see it demolished by an American charity, led by the actor Sean Penn.
In a country often dubbed the republic of NGOs, enlisting a foreign charity to tear down the most potent symbol of statehood was bound to raise eyebrows. Since January 2010, when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rendered it a jumble of fallen concrete and deflated cupolas, the palace had barely been touched. A demolition effort began in summer 2010, but was then inexplicably halted. Half-destroyed, the palace became a monument to the quake’s devastation and the state’s weakness. The circumstances of its present demolition underscore the point. Lacking the capacity to tear down its own seat, the government has brought in Mr Penn's charity, J/P Haitian Relief Organisation (HRO), which offered up its engineers and equipment at "minimal cost”. One newspaper based in the capital Port-au-Prince lamented the move as "a reflection of Haiti’s vanishing sovereignty".
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