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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Many bank branches collapsed in the earthquake and won’t be reopening soon, if ever. But banks that had doors to open did so Saturday, attracting long lines of anxious and sometimes desperate people in a city where ATMs haven’t been working since the earthquake.
Haitian officials have counted on the bank reopening to give businesses a boost and free up money to begin the long task of rebuilding the country. The effects were not immediately felt.
“We put this stuff out, we don’t sell anything,” said Mimos Charles, 32, who was selling okra alongside other vendors on a busy street. “We sit on the street for nothing.”
