Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Why did help take so long to arrive?

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Why did help take so long to arrive?: "'It is incredible, the government had no evacuation plan ... the first power in the world and it left its own population adrift.' It will be particularly galling that the man voicing those thoughts, echoed yesterday by many across the United States and around the world, was Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, and one of the Bush administration's main hate figures."