and the currency falling. and you ve got a food security crisis. on top of all of that, you ve got covid-19, which hasn t even really hit haiti hard yet. and with delta, could make a bad situation tremendously worse. so the real challenge right now is whether or not we can come up with some kind of bargain in haiti with the politicians between the left and the right agreeing to define who the next president of the country will be. apart from the political crisis, you touched on this, and it s worth revisiting. what is the role of the gangs when it comes to social instability and insecurity? i mean there are calls and plans for elections and so on, but it would be pretty hard to vote or campaign when gangs control so much of the street. that s right. i mean you ve had a gang phenomenon in haiti for quite some time. this is not something that s just emerged or materialized in the last couple of years. gangs are often deeply embedded in communities across the major cities of haiti, fr