On social media, where the real-time tragedy of residents from Solino and Nazon fleeing their homes to escape the gang violence is unfolding, other complaints are also emerging—this time from motorists and business leaders concerning yet another scarcity of petroleum products in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince and across the country.

"Port-au-Prince almost ticks every box of yet another "Peyi Lòk" scenario amid tense negotiations between presidential advisors over the formation of Alix Didier Fils-Aimé's cabinet. The country always finds a way to remind us that the worst is always possible," said a business leader familiar with the ongoing fuel shortage and the inability to unload food containers at the Port-au-Prince port for the past three days due to gang violence.