AS HAITI’S CRISIS WORSENS, A RISING NUMBER FLEE BY SEA: ‘THERE IS NOTHING FOR ME HERE’ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — There was nothing but darkness around them. Darkness and desperation. Jeff Pierre walks
AS HAITI’S CRISIS WORSENS, A RISING NUMBER FLEE BY SEA: ‘THERE IS NOTHING FOR ME HERE’ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — There was nothing but darkness around them. Darkness and desperation. Jeff Pierre walks
AS HAITI’S CRISIS WORSENS, A RISING NUMBER FLEE BY SEA: ‘THERE IS NOTHING FOR ME HERE’
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — There was nothing but darkness around them. Darkness and desperation.
Jeff Pierre walks toward the sea Nov. 16 near where he lives in Jérémie, Haiti. He has already tried once to leave the country by boat and reach the United States because, he says, “This country does not offer me anything.”© Ralph Simon for The Washington Post Jeff Pierre walks toward the sea Nov. 16 near where he lives in Jérémie, Haiti. He has already tried once to leave the country by boat and reach the United States because, he says, “This country does not offer me anything.”
“We are lost,” the captain told four dozen men, women and children squeezed tightly together on a flimsy wooden boat somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. “There is no hope.”
