The government is largely powerless to keep people from returning, though Prime Minister Max Bellerive protested this week that Port-au-Prince cannot withstand another influx of people
Haitian and international officials had hoped to use the devastation of Port-au-Prince – a densely packed sprawl of winding roads and ramshackle slums that is home to a third of Haiti’s 9 million people – to build an improved capital and decentralize the country. An estimated 500,000 people fled to the countryside in the days […]