Crime Haiti

Nearly a year ago, Haitian public security chief Robert Manuel warned of "macabre plots" by international drug cartels to infiltrate his impoverished nation, co-opt its politicians, corrupt its nascent U.S.-built police force and foment disorder. The occasion: A large shipment of Colombian cocaine destined for the United States had been abandoned in the village of Aquin on Haiti's south coast. Peasants began to divide the spoils.

Nearly a year ago, Haitian public security chief Robert Manuel warned of "macabre plots" by international drug cartels to infiltrate his impoverished nation, co-opt its politicians, corrupt its nascent U.S.-built police force and foment disorder. The occasion: A large shipment of Colombian cocaine destined for the United States had been abandoned in the village of Aquin on Haiti's south coast. Peasants began to divide the spoils.

When Dany Toussaint arrived at Miami International Airport on an American Airlines flight from Haiti on Jan. 22, alarm bells secretly went off all over the U.S. government. Toussaint, a confidant of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, had once been the Clinton administration's stalwart ally in its efforts to bring democracy and stability to Haiti.

When Dany Toussaint arrived at Miami International Airport on an American Airlines flight from Haiti on Jan. 22, alarm bells secretly went off all over the U.S. government. Toussaint, a confidant of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, had once been the Clinton administration's stalwart ally in its efforts to bring democracy and stability to Haiti.

I love Haiti. From spending four vacations in Haiti, I'm sure that your series about Haiti is true, but I still love Haiti. The people of Haiti are warm and friendly. I have never felt ill at ease as a white person in a black country. I feel safer in Haiti than I do in the United States. Like your article stated, there is no crime. Haiti is the birthplace of one of the most thrilling modern primitive art movements of the 20th Century. The frescoes on the walls of Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Port-au-Prince are the Bible stories in a Haitian setting with a riot of color.