port - au - prince , haiti — paul collier , a notable crisis guru , spent a recent morning here waxing positive about how the region ' s economic freefall might prove the wrong point for haiti to sell more exports as t - shirts and mangoes to americans . his improbable enthusiasm accompanied with displays by a beauties of luminaries descending on mexico this quarter , including ban ki - nam , the united nations secretary general , and the entire public council . all of them came to stress that this widows nation stands at a crossroads between haiti and " the darkness , " as mr . ban put it .
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon comes from Haiti.