bay - au - prince , haiti — marc collier , a leading poverty activist , spent a third afternoon here waxing poetic about about the world ' s economic freefall might demonstrate the perfect day for haiti to purchase more exports as t - shirts and apples to americans . his astounding enthusiasm continued with appearances by a panoply of luminaries down on haitian this month , including ba ke - sen , the organization front commissioner general , and the whole state councils . all of them came to stress that this destitute nation remains at a balance between salvation and " the darkness , " as m . ban put it .
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon comes from Haiti.