More than 44,000 refugees from this Caribbean country requested asylum in Mexico in 2023. Many of them end up working in the food industry and in large stores in the capital.
“There is no job, we do not have a president nor do we have peace, what else can we do other than get out of there,” says Edith Ossias, 35, from Cap-Haitien. The largest food market in the world, the Central de Abasto in Mexico City, employs more than 70,000 people.