On Sunday I sent you an update about Peguy, the woman in New York trying to reconnect with her mother and little brother in Haiti. I didn’t know if I’d be able to find them again, and neither of us knew if they were in fact related.
Peguy Ceneus, who is almost 33 and lives in New York, emailed me almost a year ago out of the blue. In the subject line she wrote, “Did you interview my brother?”
The teenager who might be her brother is Ronaldo Luis. He lives in a slum in the northern…
When I got back from Haiti on Thursday, a taxi picked me up at the bus station. The Dominican driver asked me how it was over there. I told him the truth. It’s dirty and chaotic, I said, but the people are kind. I told him about how, when I didn’t have a ride to my…
LES CAYES, Haiti
Can a Haitian slum child become a diplomat?