From left, Pierre Desarmes, Seraphin Philomene and Jean Mary discuss online in Chile with family members in Haiti. Photograph: Jorge Sanchez/AP
Members of the Desarmes family left Haiti dual weeks after the harmful trembler in January, fasten their eldest son in Chile in what seemed a retreat from the disharmony of Port-au-Prince.
Their clarity of security lasted hardly a month, until an additional absolute upheaval shook Chile at the weekend.
All the evident family survived both quakes, but now, for fright of an additional quake, they nap in the grassed area of a home that the eldest son, Pierre, found for them nearby the capital, Santiago.
"I left my nation and came here since of an earthquake," Seraphin Philomene, a 21-year-old tyro and cousin of Pierre, pronounced yesterday. "And here, the same thing. My God, I left my nation and I didn"t die, but I"m going to die here."
Pierre managed to get his family out of Haiti interjection to personal contacts at the Chilean embassy in Port-au-Prince and the Chilean armed forces. Nine members of his family ‑ his parents, dual brothers and their families, and 3 cousins ‑ arrived in Santiago on a Chilean air force craft on twenty-three January.
The 34-year-old lead thespian of a renouned Haitian reggaeton rope in Chile pronounced when he initial saw his family step off the craft he didn"t hold it. "I said, "My God, they"re here." It was a unequivocally formidable moment.. I was means to do this since I was here. But there are so most people who are there and I don"t know what"s going to occur to them."
His kin had to leave Haiti with usually hours" notice, reception instructions on where to go around content messages from a relations in the United States who was in hit with Pierre in Santiago.
Saturday"s trembler has done a formidable passing from one to another even some-more traumatic.
"When the aftershocks come, they exclude to stay in the house," Pierre said. "I have to speak to them all day prolonged revelation them: "There are no problems, it"s a nation that"s rebuilt for earthquakes, it"ll pass, it"s not so bad." But they don"t listen to me. Psychologically for them, they"re still unequivocally influenced by it."
Philomene plans to stay, anticipating to move the rest of her family to Chile. She was the usually part of of her evident family to get out since she was vital with the Desarmes in the Haitian collateral to finish her studies. Her mother, father, dual sisters and a hermit are still in Cap-Haitien, about 90 miles from Port-au-Prince.
Philomene"s father, Luigene, pronounced when he listened that his daughter had been in the Chile trembler he thought of a Haitian observant that loosely translates as: "We saved her from the stream and she finished up in the sea." Now he feels she has boundless insurance and is anticipating to stick on her in Chile.
"God is seeking for out for us," he said. "Our family didn"t die in Haiti so they aren"t going to die in Chile either."
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