Haitians fleeing 2010 earthquake chaos are enduring long journeys and border-town limbo for a fresh start in Brazil
Brazil says at least 1,500 Haitians have entered the Amazon region since January 2010 Link to this video
Each night they gather on Brazil Avenue under the amber glow of street lamps. Perched on the wall of a convenience store they talk politics, crack jokes, and sing along to mobile phone music from home. As darkness envelops Iñapari, a riverside border town in the Peruvian Amazon, the sound of French Creole and Haitian Compas songs fills the air.
“We have come here in search of a better life,” said Baptiste Suppler, a 29-year-old from Haiti‘s fourth-largest city, Gonaïves.
