SECRECY

Piarroux did not see Jonathan Katz’s November 19 article when it first appeared, and the next day he was already back in the countryside. Before leaving Port-au-Prince, though, he visited the Unité de Crise, devoted to cholera and personally set up by Préval. The use of the French wordunité—which means both “unit” and “unit”—seemed a good sign. The president had asked Piarroux to work directly with the unit, housed in a prefabricated building on the grounds of the collapsed Palais National. Several dozen people from national and international organizations occupied the offices. Some staff of LNSP, Haiti’s