Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.