For Boukman Eksperyans, those rhythms come from the Haitian countryside: from voodoo ceremonies and celebratory rara music.

Michael Ratner, an American lawyer who has represented Haitians at Guantanamo, visited the Haitian countryside last month and met with leaders of numerous grass-roots organizations.

Boukman Eksperyans went to the Haitian countryside to collect the Afro-Haitian rhythms of rural voodoo and carnival music.

He is currently working on a novel and a work of narrative nonfiction, both set in the Haitian countryside.

If anyone had asked, in Port-au-Prince or in the Haitian countryside, the common answer would have been contained in two short syllables: voodoo.

He grew up accompanying his father, an import-export broker, throughout the Haitian countryside and later studied agronomy in France.

The Haitian countryside is where most of the people trying to flee the country live.

Like any other faith, voodoo offers a system of beliefs that provides both meaning and solace, qualities that are in short supply in the hard Haitian countryside.

During Hérard's invasion of the Dominican Republic, an armed revolt began in the Haitian countryside.

The Haitian countryside is even less well attended to.