"I am very worried for the city. I am worried for my family. I am worried for myself too, because at any moment I could go out and never come back," said the Haitian journalist behind the crack-of-dawn radio broadcasts that help the capital's jittery residents stay alive.
Rémy uses a motorbike to move around the city, which a gang rebellion that began six weeks ago has almost entirely cut off from the outside world, gathering information on where is and isn't safe to tread. He has witnessed spine-chilling scenes.
One morning last week, reporting for Haiti's most popular station, Radio Caraïbes, he encountered about 30 men with heavy weapons on the road to the airport, which gang fighters had forced to close at the beginning of the uprising. Farther north, Rémy spotted another mob of gunmen. In the southern suburbs he heard gunshots - the latest disturbance in a criminal insurrection that has forced nearly 100,000 people to abandon the city and locked the prime minister out of the country.
The situation has grown so dire that Rémy, 47, and his wife recently decided she should flee to the US with one of their three children. "Often I also think about leaving the country," he admitted. "But in those moments I remember that my work helps 3 million people every morning who need to know if they can leave their homes."
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