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Haiti, a very dim light at the end of the tunnel

Posted: May 6, 2024

I recently had the opportunity to be the subject of a documentary as part of a school assignment for a student filmmaker. He was a friend of my daughter’s, so I agreed to be interviewed. We kicked around a few topics that could be interesting and then settled on what felt right and what I

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Haiti, as the lights fade away…

By Marie Nadine Gaston

Posted: March 25, 2024

It was a little past midnight when I heard a burst of what sounded like machine gun fire. I was still debating whether it was fireworks or actual gunshots when the sound pierced the air again. In my neighborhood, sitting on the lower part of the Turgeau hills in Port-au-Prince, the night air carries sounds

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