Mountains Beyond Mountains ch.1 & 2

In the first couple chapters of Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, it basically talks about the setting, the problems in Haiti, and what Paul Farmer does and his background. In chapter one page one, it says that "Captain Carroll had only eight men, and they were temporarily in charge of keeping the peace among 150,000 Haitians, spread across about one thousand square miles of rural Haiti." This tells me how the U.S didn't really care nor take the situation seriously. In chapter two pages 14-17, Farmer is having a conversaton with a guy named Joe and the conversation shows Farmers personality and how passionate he is about his job.