PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Women selling hot peppers and black beans in a sprawling market in Haiti’s capital talk of their unending economic woes or their hungry children - pretty much anything but U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s coming visit to the island.

Clinton arrives in Haiti on Thursday amid widespread disappointment over foreign aid promises in a country still recovering from last year’s food riots and four tropical storms that killed nearly 800 people and caused $1 billion.

Tending unsold piles of food and batting away beetles in this noisy Croix-des-Bossales market, women fixate on the fact that they and their children are still hungry.

"There’s no money in this country because there isn’t any work," said Therese Bejaman, 38, who sells coconuts imported from the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Bejaman’s husband lost his job at the commercial port across the street a few years ago. Now their seven children, aged 6 to 18, depend on her traveling hours over washed-out roads to the border, where she pays about $5.60 for a dozen coconuts with hopes of making about 5 1/2 cents of profit on each one. But that’s not going well.

"They aren’t selling fast," she said.