Haiti, April 1995

Some pictures from one of David's trips to Haiti.  These pictures were taken a few months after the U.S.-led  invasion to restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in 1994.

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1.  A street vendor selling some kind of cold drink. 

2.   Street vendor with Corn Flakes.

3-5:  More street scenes in Port-au-Prince, teeming with life as you can see. 

6.  Remnant of the better days in Port-au-Prince.

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7-12:  I split a ride with a Haitian guy from New York to get around town one day.  That's him looking out the window in picture 7, with all kinds of caustic observations on life in Port-au-Prince.  The rest of the pictures are from the considerable time we spent waiting in traffic.  One thing you can definitely say -- no one drives alone in Haiti.

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13.  A sign encouraging support for the multi-national force policing Haiti at the time.

14.  Another sign at the front of the hotel -- click and read the fine print!

15.  A junkyard of old Air Haiti planes at the airport.  I've never figured out what type the plane in the center is -- it sort of looks like a DC-3 or C-47, but the nose and cockpit areas are strange-looking.  Some kind of post-WW2 Soviet knockoff?

Enough of Haiti, back to home!