Port-au-Prince, May 6 (Prensa Latina) The Haitian Parents Association urged the Presidential Transitional Council to restore 900 schools that are currently closed in Haiti. The post Haiti’s gang violence keeps 900 schools shut down first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Port-au-Prince, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) The coalition of gangs that today control 80 percent of the capital, attacked, vandalized and sacked about a dozen targets without fearing the offensive from the Haitian National Police. The post Gangs continue to destroying social works in Port-au-Prince first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Vitel’homme Innocent’s picture on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list of fugitives suggests a crazed man – eyes wide and wild, teeth bared. It’s the photo you might expect for a gang leader accused of destabilizing a nation, who claims to be under divine protection and who has a $2 million bounty on his head for alleged kidnappings. In person, he projects a different image, at least to guests. Powerful, yes, surrounded by armed acolytes who jump at his glance – but also carefully solicitous, with a...
Gangs stormed the neighborhood of Haiti’s police chief, Frantz Elbé, in March, broke into his house, set it afire and killed his dog. Mr. Elbé and his family were not home at the time, and he did not want to discuss what happened in any detail. But the attack, which was captured on video, sent a chilling message through police ranks and to residents of the country’s embattled capital, Port-au-Prince. “It symbolized that no one was safe,” said Reginald Delva, a Haitian security consultant and...
Port-au-Prince, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) The Haitian Hydrometeorological Unit remains on Wednesday on alert for possible flooding in Port-au-Prince, as it has been bucketing down recently so that the ground got saturated. The post Haiti’s capital on alert given soils’ saturation by rainfalls first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Photographer Evelio Contreras was part of a CNN crew that traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, earlier this month and met with wanted gang leader Vitel’homme Innocent.
The move is seen as an apparent attempt to go around Republican oversight efforts.
Gangs in Haiti laid siege to several neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours as hundreds fled the violence early Thursday in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced.
Haiti's Transitional Council has named Fritz Bélizaire the next Prime Minister of Haiti, but the gangs want their voices to be heard.
As a united front of powerful armed gangs in Haiti continue to hold millions hostage and threaten the collapse of society, the ongoing attacks have claimed a new victim: the downtown Port-au-Prince premises of Haiti’s oldest newspaper, the region’s oldest French-language daily.
A new transitional council of nine members has been sworn in, and seven have voting powers. Henry's finance minister, Michel Patrick Boisvert, will serve as the interim prime minister. The post DeSantis Rescues More Than 700 Floridians from Haiti as Prime Minister Resigns Amid Gang Violence first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
Ariel Henry presented his resignation in a letter released on the same day that a council tasked with choosing a new prime minister and Cabinet for Haiti was sworn in.