Just as Haiti was beginning to turn the economic corner, disaster struck. Judy Woodruff examines how the timing of the earthquake is especially catastrophic considering the country's slow recovery from its rocky past.

Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake was the largest recorded in Haiti since 1770, but more than a dozen quakes of that size have shaken the country's Caribbean neighbors repeatedly over the past centuries. That's because Hispaniola, the Caribbean Island Haiti…