Poverty

• The country is starving and trapped in a hunger crisis. Since the earthquake in January 2010, about 4.5 million people are dealing with food insecurity. With inflation at 26%, it is hard for families and individuals to afford food and other necessities. People hardly have enough to eat. In the World Bank's view, “poverty is also hunger, poverty is lack of shelter, and poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor.

Hunger

• About 46% of the population are projected to be in a crisis or worse.

Gang violence

• • The gang G9 focuses on targeting the ruling class. The gang gives youth an opportunity to get the resources they need, protection, and higher status, which is everything the Haitian government fails to provide. G9 is a result of poverty, but it also forces families into poverty by destruction and chaos, burning homes, and kidnapping for ransom.

  • The community is also plagued by widespread corruption, gang violence, drug trafficking, and organized crime.

Assasination of the President

• • The rise in violence and disconnect from poverty also led to the assasination of their late president, Jovenel Moise, who was reportedly killed in his home.

  • Since his murder, the country has been put into more turmoil. The death of the president only led to more violence and confusion because there was no clear replacement, which left the already impoverished and fragile nation on the brink of collapse.

  • Haiti follows the political system of a unitary semi-presidential republic: the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of the government. With that being said, their government essentially started to fall apart because of the assassination 

Haiti's injustice of poverty has led and intersected into other issues like gender and religion

• • Gender

    • • Spiked rates of gender-based and sexual violence which increased unpaid labor creating a disproportionate loss of economic and educational opportunities

Almost half of the households are women-led and they also form the majority of street vendors and agricultural supply chains. However, they suffer inequality and violence. The political system and government is far from what Haiti's actual social structure is. Like I stated above, their political system is a unitary semi-presidential republic but the social structure of their society has shaped differently and says otherwise, hence the death of the president, the impoverished country, gender inequality, and mass murder and destruction.