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HaitiNewest Review: ... tap-tap, a mini-bus like the Manilla ones. We saw primitive settlements where people kept a few cattle or pigs or chickens. We saw semi-naked women bathing or washing clothes in filthy pools and streams. "Tomorrow, I give you another tour," said Franz in Haitian French. "OK. I'll have finished breakfast by 11am." Next morning I woke early and happened to look out the bedroom window. Franz was waiting beneath a palm tree. It was 6am. After breakfast I decided we would have a taxi ride. "Taxi?" asked a bearded man standing next to hotel reception, "Two dollars!" "Oui," I replied,... more |
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"What caused the riots and the curfew?" I asked the honey-lipped little girl seated on a bar stool in Santo Domingo's dilapidated Colon Bar. It was April 1980. "Corruption," she said, "A fourteen year old newspaper boy and a journalist were shot. Near your hotel." I decided to escape to Haiti. A taxi drove me to the airport along roads piled high with rubbish. On the flight over the mountainous island of Hispaniola a picturesque young Argentinian woman got chatting to me. She was dressed like a latter-day Eva Peron. "Haiti is very safe for the tourist," she said. "The police ... Read the complete review
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