The noise of protest in Haiti

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Several thousand people demonstrated in Port-au-Prince on Sunday March 28, 2021 to express their opposition to what they consider a desire to reinstate the dictatorship.

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By: Mikaël Ponge

22 mins

They were again in the streets of Port-au-Prince yesterday (March 29, 2021) to show their anger.

For the second day in a row, Haitians, Monday March 29, 2021, anniversary of the 1987 Constitution, denounced the proposed constitutional referendum of Jovenel Moïse.

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A little less numerous perhaps, but like the day before, Haitians once again demonstrated Monday, March 29, 2021, against President Jovenel Moïse and his draft constitutional referendum scheduled for June 27.

"Beyond the electoral and referendum calendar that it wants to impose, with the support of the international, it is the reproduction of an unequal and subordinate power which is rejected"

writes the online site

Alterpresse

and wonders: would be it

"the beginning of a restart of the Haitian revolution?

".

Its editor, Gotson Pierre, is online from Port-au-Prince.

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