France, Nov. 3 -- Blood says he is sad. His mother died in his arms last year, aged 68. "She was not old, but not young either," he says.

She had been worrying about money and suffered from high blood pressure.

Her death left him so shaken that he has yet to find steady work.

"I'm always here, on the streets," he adds.

It is the afternoon on the eve of the mid term elections in Little Haiti, a neighbourhood north of central Miami and a cultural heartland of the Haitian diaspora. The streets are still quiet. Devante AKA "Blood," who lives in Little Haiti, Miami, Florida, says he may vote for Trump.

The cultural centre and the Libreri Mapou Creole & French Bookstore are closed. The neighbourhood will come to life much later in the day....