Haitian History: Sources for Truth-Seekers

If you're the skeptical type (like me) who likes to fact-check the stories you hear, I'll make your job a little easier. Here are the main sources for my Haitian history videos, so that you can investigate them for yourself and draw your own conclusions. (I'll try to add to this post shortly after each…

A Second Glance: Updates on Dunord, Esther, Satini, and Noel

After I ventured to Haiti in 2017, I wrote stories featuring four farmers who lost their homes to a hurricane: Dunord, Esther, Satini, and Noel. When I interviewed them in Paroty, a rural community on the hillside above Jeremie, they were struggling to survive, living in jury-rigged shacks next to the skeletons of their old…

Roughing It

I went back to Haiti. Alone. I touched down in Port-au-Prince little more than a week after rioters choked the streets with burning tires. Eventually, I rode a public bus down a snake-like mountain road to the isolated town of Jeremie—all with a guide who barely spoke English. As a first-world traveler in a third-world…