In Disaster, Tensions Ease Between an Island’s Rivals

In Disaster, Tensions Ease Between an Island’s Rivals, by SIMON ROMERO and MARC LACEY, The New York Times, January 28, 2010 Like almost anyone from Hispaniola, the island uncomfortably shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Paloma Rivera is acutely aware that the two nations distrust each other, complain about each other and cite grievances about each other going back well over a century. Yet here she was, a Dominican, clearing garbage and digging latrines in a slum in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, to help survivors of the earthquake find a place to pitch their tents. More...