The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) has released a report which describes life in Haiti as a daily, terrifying Struggle for survival, the result of three consecutive years of economic recession, a political impasse, and unprecedented levels of gang violence. Every day, more and more people fall into extreme poverty; 31 per cent of the population lives on less than US$2.15 a day, and some 4.8 million are food-insecure, which means that they struggle to meet their daily nutritional needs. The report includes testimony from a country seemingly in freefall.

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