On Tuesday, the civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson visited Haiti, where he called for emergency aid.

Rev. Jesse Jackson: “We want to immediately meet with leaders of our Congress and the Food Market Institute to address the issue of adequate food for Haiti in this coming emergency period. Secondly, in the meantime, Haiti’s farm rice producers need to rebuild their infrastructure, tractors and transportation and seeds. It’s going to take about a year to do that, so in the emergency time, we need rice and wheat and cooking oil now.”

Earlier this month, five Haitians were killed during protests over the rising cost of food.