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Protesters beat Port-au-Prince against the government on November 23, 2018. REUTERS / Andres Martinez Casares
In Haiti, the situation remains tense after a week of general strike. For fear or to respect the slogan launched by the opposition, the inhabitants of the capital have remained holed up at home since Monday, November 19. The protest announced for Friday 23 did not reunite the crowd that had parade Sunday 18, but the anger of the young has been much more exacerbated. Clashes with the police multiplied in the afternoon.
With our correspondent in Port-au-Prince , Amélie Baron
The small procession was far from having the density of the crowd that marched on Sunday 18 to demand the resignation of Jovenel Moses . The atmosphere of the event was also different: more aggression and desire to fight. Without respecting the announced route, the protesters had to face the police who made a very large use of tear gas to disperse them. What to accentuate their anger.
" It is not at the service of the Haitian people: this police is at the service of power and the economic elite , says Pierre Richard Alexis. We live in a country where human rights are not respected. In Haiti, people live in filth, in misery. All the people are mobilized : it is not the opposition that has put us in the street, it is not able to do that. Haiti is a country like any other, we have the right to demonstrate to claim the right to have access to food. But the president is proud: he does not like dialogue. It's a president who wants to keep everything to himself. "
Its fiercest opponents are determined to maintain the pressure and continue their mobilization, even if it involves regular clashes with the police, as it was the case every Friday afternoon 23 in the town of Petion-Ville.