Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods
A man transports a coffin using a wheelbarrow, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, March 8, 2024. Rotting fruit, withered vegetables, empty water jugs and spent gas canisters now stock the stores and stands that serve's poor — a consequence of the unrelenting gang attacks that have paralyzed the country for more than a week and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods.
Grocery stores in upscale parts of the capital remain stocked, but their goods are out of reach to most in a country where most people earn less than $2 a day. Gérald noted that he was running out of things to sell because the depot where he usually buys rice, oil, beans, powdered milk and bread had been set on fire and its owner had been kidnapped.Scores of people have been killed and more than 15,000 have been forced from their homes since coordinated gang attacks began on Feb. 29 while Prime Minister Ariel Henry was in Kenya to push for the U.N.-backed deployment of a police force from the East African country to fight gangs in Haiti.
Schools, banks and most government agencies remain closed. Gas stations have also shuttered, and the few who can afford to pay $9 a gallon — more than twice the usual rate — have flocked to the black market.Michel Jean, 45, sat on Thursday next to the makeshift metal shack where he normally sells rice, beans, milk and toilet paper.
“They are saying essentially that they are prepared to take over the government,” said Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics experts at the University of Virginia, referring to the gangs. “I think we should take them fairly seriously.” “The whole area is suffering,” he said. “They are not getting any water. They are not getting any propane.”
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