Reporter’s Files: Haiti

Slavery of poor children continues in the form of “restaveks.”

I covered the tradition of restaveks, where parents in the countryside send their children to live with city families who commonly abuse and enslave them. It’s an awful practice that has endured for centuries. Here’s my article about it:

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Journalist, novelist, world traveller. Author of novels Law of the Jungle, Skin of Tattoos and Girl on the Brink. Ex Latin America foreign correspondent.

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Christina Hoag

Journalist, novelist, world traveller. Author of novels Law of the Jungle, Skin of Tattoos and Girl on the Brink. Ex Latin America foreign correspondent.