Haiti has so many problems at the moment that you would need three hands to account for them all. The country has had its fair share of political turmoil over the last several decades, but nothing compares to the situation in which Haiti now finds itself.

There are at least 200 armed gangs roaming the country, with the most powerful located in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Haiti hasn’t held an election in eight years, its last president was assassinated in his home (a judge recently charged the president’s widow and a former prime minister, in addition to 50 others, in his killing), and there isn’t a single elected officeholder in the country. The United Nations estimates that at least half of the population isn’t getting enough to eat.