When disasters strike countries that are already a mess to begin with it's really hard to work under those conditions, those conditions being the countries, Haiti and Puerto Rico are ripe for corruption. The Red Cross handed off huge chunks of the money given them to other charities whom were more familiar working in that kind of environment. So now you not only have the Red Cross recouping their cost administrative wise, supply wise but you have a number of other organizations doing exactly the same thing, then those organizations go in and hire whom they think will get the job done and those people end up being corrupt. I am not saying the Red Cross is without blame but it more so leans towards it's lack of ability or expertise to perform that which is primarily outside of it's scope. They were never set up to rebuild communities in other words, their job is to go in and help people immediately following a disaster, when they stay within that focus you see there is no one arguing their success rate in that aspect. Now it might seem funny to you or I at first glance they'd take a big chuck and get themselves out of debt but you have to remember that that debt is occurred at the expense of continually all over the world having at ready available cots, food, water and volunteers to go in on a minutes notice to help save people. Do you realize the astronomical cost of that? Think about it once. Thousands of storage area's have to be maintained all over the globe, food ready at hand and replenished if it's not used within a specific amount of time, even bottled water is recommended to be replaced every six months. Then when you have a huge disaster that the whole world responds to and you collect astronomical amounts of money where you are left with a huge surplus then what do you do? You can't just hand it off to anybody so you set in place a motion to give it to on groups whom had their feet on the ground in countries like that forever...what else can they do? The best they can do is put it in the hands of those whom were recommended as having experience working with countries like that, sort of a best laid plans scenario, after that what is really expected of them? They did what was initially intended of them and they did it rather well, that's because that's their job and their good at it, beyond that they have no control if the money has been entrusted to what came recommended to them as reputable firms to disburse the remainder of the funds to the benefit of those whom it was intended for, I think people miss that point, it's not their job to rebuild places, it's their job to take care of people immediately in the aftermath and they are damn good at it.