MEXICO CITY – As Delmas Oslet watched the Haitian men’s national soccer team earn its first spot in the World Cup in five decades, he said he was filled with “happiness, happiness, happiness.”
But there were also tinges of pain.
Oslet, 49, left Haiti in search of a better life more than 20 years ago because of social instability. He couldn’t help but think now, he said, of the hundreds of thousands of others who had fled since then.
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