Another Haiti
The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson remembers the Haiti where his father worked in the fifties
before it was deforested for charcoal for poor people’s firewood… poor but not yet desperate. In those days, it was a green and verdant place, full of little family truck-farms, and the postwar West’s early aid and development specialists who were sent there spoke about the country as the future “breadbasket” of the Caribbean
