I’m just back from Port-au-Prince, where, as always, I met people with extraordinary courage. Here is my up-to-date report in The Nation, in which I present one of them — Pierre France, a 35-year-old electrician who, along with his friends, risked their own lives to prevent the cholera epidemic from invading their tent encampment.
I conclude that nearly a year after the killer earthquake, “a delayed and sometimes bumbling international and Haitian government response contrasts sharply with decisive, effective action by many Haitians, both here and in the 1-million-strong diaspora.”
