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.
People in need of food call out for a sack of rice during a federal government distribution of food and school supplies to some residents of Cite Soleil, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The daily struggles of Haitians have only become more acute as recent anti-government protests and roadblocks force the closure of businesses, sometimes permanently, as people lose jobs and dwindling incomes fall behind a spike in prices.
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 fall behind 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.” Cite de Soleil Mayor Jean Frédéric Hislain told The Associated Press that he had 3,000 sacks of rice and 1,500 backpacks to distribute.Moïse and his wife made a surprise appearance in Pétionville in front of a business called Nick’s Exterminating on Thursday. He wore a white suit and black tie and shook hands briefly with street vendors before getting into his car and leaving with a convoy.
“They don’t want to pay what we’re charging,” he said. “The majority of people right now are suffering. The majority of people can’t afford to feed themselves right now.”
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