This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Bernard Fils-Aimé was a left-leaning activist and a corporate cellphone tycoon, and inhabiting those seemingly contradictory roles was a mark of his commitment to his home country of Haiti. As an organizer of refugees in Miami, he fought for poor migrants fleeing poverty or political violence. Mr. Fils-Aimé saw each role as a means of achieving the same goal: raising the voices of ordinary Haitians at home and abroad. “Bernard recognized that and was able to do it,” said Conor Bohan, the founder and executive director of the Haitian Education and Leadership Program, or HELP, a nonprofit that recruited Mr. Fils-Aimé to its board.

Source: International New York Times August 26, 2020 15:11 UTC