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- You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate…
- I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme.…
- I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your…
- And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
- Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force -…
- There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears…
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