Hundreds of workers at the state-owned Metropolitan Industrial Park in Port-au-Prince (Haiti's capital) staged a second consecutive day of protests on Tuesday, demanding higher wages and lower fuel prices as the ongoing conflict in Iran drives up oil costs worldwide. Workers currently earn 685 Haitian gourdes — just over five dollars — per day, while a gallon of gasoline now costs 850 gourdes; protesters are calling for a minimum wage of 3,000 gourdes, roughly 22 dollars per day. Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, recently saw diesel prices rise 37% and gasoline 29%, with experts warning the compounding pressures of stagnant wages and surging fuel costs risk triggering a deepening humanitarian crisis.