Haiti was eliminated from the World Cup on Wednesday afternoon. But you wouldn’t have known it if you were walking by Lakou Lakay — a Haitian restaurant in Tijuana’s Zona Norte. That’s where dozens of members of Haiti’s Mexican diaspora gathered to cheer on their team. “We’re happy here,” said Evens Jean Lois. “Here in Tijuana, it’s almost like being in our home country.” Jean Lois arrived in Tijuana in 2019, after facing discrimination in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.