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Inside Haiti's Food Riots

For years, Hernite Joseph scraped a living by selling imported chicken parts in the muddy markets of Port-Au-Prince's seaside slums. The three dollars or so she made each day used to be enough to take care of her unemployed husband and three children. Now, she is struggling to stave off starvation. "Everything has changed," says Joseph, stabbing at a half-frozen chunk of poultry with a screwdriver. "My kids are like toothpicks. Before, if you had $1.25, you could buy vegetables, some rice, 10 cents of charcoal and a little cooking oil."