Haiti is enduring another not-so-natural disaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.

With winds reaching 145 miles an hour, the storm wrecked homes, communities and lives, particularly along Haiti’s southwestern coast. Estimates of the death toll have reached as high as one thousand.

The storm caused havoc along the Florida and Carolina coast in the US, making landfall last weekend. But the death toll will be nowhere near as high as in Haiti, where the violence of the storm was intensified by human-made factors that are many decades old.