May 2nd 2009 | KYAUNDA From Economist.com One year on, cyclone Nargis is still taking a toll on its Burmese victims Initially the callousness and incompetence of Myanmar’s ruling junta hampered the aid effort. Now the obstacles are a shortage of funds and foreign squeamishness about dealing with the junta. In the weeks after the disaster it blocked foreign access to the delta and stalled aid shipments. But some aid did soon reach the survivors, from international agencies already working [...]