Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

_pap_embed_custom('news01s3976qd89',482,304,""); Ray Suarez and a team from the NewsHour are in Port-au-Prince, reporting on the aftermath of an earthquake that has ravaged the Haitian captial and turned the eyes of the world back to the story of Haiti's larger…

As Haiti recovers from an earthquake on Jan. 12 that flattened much of Port-au-Prince, several Haiti specialists considered the question: Should any U.S. policies on Haiti change, either in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, or longer term?…