Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World | Part II, Chapter 11 Summary and Analysis

Summary
Chapter 11 begins with Farmer's return to Haiti in a wheelchair (due to his broken leg) in December of 1988. He finds Haiti politically agitated. The peasants protest and try to oust any remnants of the former Duvalier power structure; the military government who took over after Duvalier and rule with U.S. aid and support strike back even more violently. The result is considerable social upheaval, and a society where patients might be killed in their hospital beds and voters at the polls. The small Catholic churches of the Haitian countryside are the...

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