Deadly protests that have shuttered public schools and businesses in Haiti’s capital and nearby communities leave the country’s economy sputtering amid ballooning inflation as the opposition demands the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse.
Marcel Cineus, left, keeps an eye on a customer browsing his book stand at a market in Petionville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. School was supposed to start in early September, and Cineus by now would have already sold a couple hundred of books.
It’s a domino effect familiar to many of the nearly 11 million people who live in Haiti, where 60% make less than $2 a day and 25% earn less than $1 a day. Their daily struggles have become more acute as protests and roadblocks force the closure of businesses, sometimes permanently, as people lose jobs and dwindling incomes struggle to keep up with a spike in prices.
“You still have demand but no supply,” he said. “Right now we are running out of water, we are running out of gas.” Nearby, vendors balanced wooden boxes stuffed with smoked codfish on their heads, side-stepping mounds of spinach that rested on puddles of gray water. A man pushed a cement-crusted wheelbarrow filled with fresh loaves of bread. No one was buying.“Every day we are living on hope,” he said.
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