Roselaine Duperval lives in Port-Salut, a fishing town at Haiti’s southern tip, where the Caribbean Sea laps onto long stretches of pale sand and coconut palms lean lazily toward turquoise water. On most mornings, fishers still push their wooden boats into the surf before dawn. Schoolchildren weave through the main street in neatly pressed uniforms. At first glance, it is everything visitors imagine when they picture a Caribbean paradise.
Except hardly any visitors come anymore. Local tourism, once one of the area’s few reliable sources of income, has largely disappeared.
