This photo is from one of the Haitian bateys that Makarios works in - Negro Melo. Theirs is a sad situation. The village sits on a hill, surrounded by vast sugar fields. The owners of the fields have not paid to have the sugar cut in the past two years, which gives almost no hope of employment to the men of the village, who are cut off from most other job possibilities. Many of the families have little or nothing to eat each day. The group from the Austin Stone church paid to give all the families in the village rice and beans.

What you are seeing in the photo is what you are thinking - a cock fight. It is a sport that is alive and well in both sides of Hispaniola. I think these guys got their roosters to fight just for us Americans.