This article that I looked at for this contemporary connection is involved with the decrease in infant mortality rates in the poorest 49 countries in the world. There is a section that mentions Haiti's decrease in infant mortality rates from 17.4 percent in 2010, to 7.3 percent in 2013. The infant mortality rate in Haiti during 2010 was mostly due to the earthquake that struck the island that year.
I saw a connection in this article, to the book through Senora Valencia's mother's death, along with the death of her brother during that failed birth. There were many infant and maternal deaths in poor countries until recently, as seen in the article which is provided in the link above.
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