Anderson Cooper reflects on Haiti orphanage, his slain teacher and ongoing violence

In a recent 60 Minutes Overtime interview, Anderson Cooper reported from the Have Faith Haiti orphanage, a secure enclave that shelters children amid pervasive gang violence in Port-au-Prince. He highlighted that numerous residents have not left the facility for four years due to the dangerous conditions outside. Cooper shared his personal connection to Haiti through his former Dalton School math teacher, Yves Volel, who returned to Haiti, ran for president in 1987 and was shot dead while speaking to journalists outside a police station.

Cooper recalled Volel’s earlier claim that his car had been targeted in a suspected assassination attempt linked to supporters of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. While at the orphanage, Cooper heard gunshots from the surrounding streets and heard students describe bullets flying overhead. He emphasized that the security situation in Haiti remains “completely out of control,” the worst he has seen in decades of reporting there.