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.
Amazon suspended from counting in Alabama
After the vote, begins this Tuesday, March 30, 2021, the counting of the ballots of the 5,800 employees of the Amazon site in the suburbs of Birmingham in Alabama in the United States.
They had to decide on the creation of a union.
If the yes wins, it will be a first in the United States.
Amazon, which fears an oil stain effect on its other warehouses, has campaigned for the no, and refutes the accusations of mistreatment launched by the employees that Anne Corpet went to meet.
The waltz of ministers in Brazil
In a country ravaged by the Covid pandemic with more than 314,000 dead, President Jaïr Bolsonaro reshuffled, Monday March 29, 2021, his government changed six ministers.
Announcements were expected since February 2021, when his government is weakened by the worsening health crisis.
The departure of Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo was expected, it was very controversial for having hampered the import of vaccines from China in particular, on the other hand that of Defense surprised.
For Gaspard Estrada, executive director of OPALC, the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean, and connoisseur of Brazil, the army now finds itself in a very uncomfortable position.
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