_This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts._ Cite Soleil looks like a place where an American soldier

might be expected to fight. An impossibly crowded warren of tin-roofed shacks, open sewers and blind alleys, it is one of the poorest slums in the Americas, with a long history of unrest,

crime and violence. So picture the scene: Just as dawn was breaking Sunday, a battle-hardened platoon from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division rolled into the area behind a well-armed convoy

of Brazilian soldiers attached to the United Nations’ longtime peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Smoke from cooking and trash fires filled the air, reducing visibility in places to less than a