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Valdo Cene, 38, said he worries that elderly people are dying in their homes, with some people unable to venture out for food and water because gangs control their neighborhoods.

Cene used to sell propane, which many use for cooking.

Cene said he and his family are living off their remaining rice, beans, sardines and plantains, along with a handful of yams and carrots.

In 2019, they reached agreement: If you’re alive now you live in the Anthropocene — a geologic epoch incorporating humans in its very definition: “Anthropo,” as in anthropology, meaning “human”; and “cene,” as in so many recent geologic epochs — Miocene, Pleistocene — meaning “recent” or “new.”

“They left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Haitian people,” said Valdo Cenè, who sells cooking gas.