Port-au-Prince: What to Do When Nothing Can Be Done?

The existential question to ask oneself in Port-au-Prince these days is: what to do when nothing can be done?

Every resident of Port-au-Prince—those living in the last neighborhoods not yet attacked by gangs—asks themselves this question while devising plans, wondering how much time they have left before meeting the same fate as the others. The feeling of abandonment is now a defining characteristic of the capital’s residents in particular, and Haitians in general.

This question—what to do when not