The Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines is the main commercial artery in Port-au-Prince;

Haitians call it the Grand Rue. It is a seething ribbon of humanity, an endless prarade of creative souls, flowing as one, urged on by one spirit or another, making, selling and transporting things to one another.

The Gran Rue was devastated in the earthquake . People were killed and maimed and many grand buildings pancaked. The fabulous Iron Market collapsed.

This page will be a portal to some of the life of the Gran Rue - Boulevard of Hope, now.

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Gran Rue artist "Louco" RIP