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Haiti is quite literally falling apart.

Honestly, my friends, when we are talking about things in history, there are very few countries that have struggled with development like Haiti.

Since breaking free from French colonial rule over two centuries ago, the Caribbean state

has weathered multiple foreign interventions, chronic political instability, constant social

unrest, and devastating natural disasters that have destroyed the country when it wasn't already

being destroyed by its own systems. And there is nothing that perhaps exemplifies this greater than

the fact that gangs have effectively taken over the entire country. A recent spike of violence in

Haiti's capital, Port-Prince, is preventing

the World Food Program, the WFP, from actually reaching hundreds of thousands of people who

currently are in urgent need of basic food and supplies. Conflict between varying groups of

armed gangs is only worsening as time goes on, which in turn turns the capital city into a

battleground, one in which the common people

are stuck with really no way out or salvation to come. Very quickly, this is taking a bad

situation and turning the entire thing into an escalating humanitarian crisis. Per of the United

Nations Food Agency, the latest violence, which broke out early this February, has forced

nearly 10,000 people to flee their homes in merely just 10 days.

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