Haitian refugees search for new life in the Amazon

Someone should just follow these guys around from now, those are going to be some very interesting lives and it'd be fascinating to see how they do in the next ten or twenty years in a documentary.

From The Guardian:

"We have come here in search of a better life," said Baptiste Suppler, a 29-year-old from Haiti's fourth-largest city, Gonaïves.

Suppler is one in a wave of Haitian migrants determined to build a new life in the Brazilian Amazon.

He pointed across the river Acre, separating Peru's Iñapari from the Brazilian border town of Assis Brasil, representing the last hurdle towards a fresh start in South America's largest and wealthiest nation. "Our objective is to reach Brazil," he added.

According to the Brazilian authorities at least 1,500 Haitians have entered the Amazon region since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated their country on 12 January 2010, killing about 200,000.

Haiti's quake refugees brave sea and uncertainty for new life in Amazon

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