Haitians bound for Brazil languish in Peru's Amazon

8 February 2012, 8:42 am

INAPARI, Peru (Reuters) - Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed. Mostly educated and in their 20s, they have taken refuge in a stuffy church in the Peruvian border town of Inapari since Brazil stationed federal police along the ...... Read More »

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