Guatemalan soldiers with riot gear who are part of MINUSTAH provide security as hundreds of hungry people queue for food relief in the flooded city...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Guatemalan soldiers with riot gear who are part of MINUSTAH (the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti) provide security as hundreds of hungry people queue for food relief in the flooded city of Gonaives. Two weeks earlier the entire city had been engulfed during Hurricanes Ike and Hanna causing widespread hardship, damage and destruction. An estimated 250,000 people need assistance, with 80 percent of the local population left without food and water. At this point most of the water had receded leaving the town struggling to deal with a residue of thick stinking mud. This distribution was taking place at the Care Depot, and was organized by the WFP (World Food Programme. Some NGOs working in the city were critical of this heavy-handed security during food distributions. During the hurricane season of 2008 Haiti was subjected to four hurricanes in twenty days. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)"}