HAITI YOU' VE NEVER SEEN

THAT'S  BEEN HAPPENING  IN THE HAITIAN COUNTRYSIDE..

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icky Riva saw tears streaming down the pilot’s cheek . She also was crying when looking at the virgin   and paradisiacal beaches. Sat west to the helicopter’s pilot, a still young man, Vicky could barely understand what has touched so deeply the 4-people crew, landing and flying across the apparently never explored Haitian Southern landscape.

Viewed from above, the Haitian countryside seem to have  been  frozen  back to  Columbus times.  Hence its  so moving panorama. But, by the  early 2000s, a kind of  rush had started shaking these sleeping areas.

Local tourism had triggered the move. More than that, however, new life styles can explain this booming endeavor. Peoples had become tired of living in crowded and ghetto like neighborhoods. They long for better and more quiet places.

Old southern cities like Jacmel got setting up infrastructures on their own. Jacmel still has hidden attractions, far from different from the traditional Northern monuments, back to the 50s and 60s. But, far away from Pt-au-Prince, Pt Salut is getting a new look . Mie Antoinette Buteau and his husband have seized these opportunities  to launch a cellular phone business. Even in its deep hinterland, Manolo Pressoir continue to run a country hotel offering hot water, and internet. Mr Pressoir  had never thought  about leaving his native country.

Better be back home, whisper consequently  with a relief, Haitians residents living outside and eager to share this kind of wake-up call. Now,  one can understand why the returning vague is so catching .

The move has something to do with set-up wharfs and piers, open now to goods arrival such as cars, commodities and domestic furniture. Never mind going any longer to P-au-P for everything. Cities, small towns and  counties can have utilities and facilities on their own, let alone professionals and entrepreneurs who want to do businesses at home, within their native places.

But, what  matters most, is the  countryside coming  to new life styles as that happened with cane cutters coming back from Cuba , early in the 20 th century. Camp Perrin houses in the South LI building like design. The same goes at Jacmel downtown where American way  would take the lead. In total, foreign interference is everywhere, whether at Leogane or St Marc. Furthermore,  in the process  of reinventing itself, Haiti is living up to  new expectations longtime heralded  by the booming phone business. Any place  you go deep in the country, quietness continue to lure travelers and vacationers tired of the American beat. A momentum that cannot stop cellular phone from ringing. 

That’s the new Haitian life style.