A Constructive Reading of a Brutally True Story

On August 1st, in the back seat of a Montreal taxi, Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of Le Nouvelliste, delivered—without meaning to—an unflinching X-ray of Haiti.

On August 1st, in the back seat of a Montreal taxi, Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of Le Nouvelliste, delivered—without meaning to—an unflinching X-ray of Haiti. Through a banal exchange with an African driver, he laid bare, as one might unravel a tragic thread, the contradictions and profound disintegration of a country that seems to live simultaneously in chaos and in the acceptance of that chaos.

The scene, almost theatrical, could have come from a noir novel. The driver’s simple questions became sharp

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