Haiti: Daniel Foote resigns and denounces the "inhuman" policy of the United States
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The US envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote has resigned from his post.
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By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
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US envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote resigns.
He announced it in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
A letter with a very harsh tone in which he denounces the expulsions by the United States of thousands of Haitian migrants from Texas.
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It is from memory, the first time, that a senior American official has made such remarks on the Haitian file: "
I will not associate myself with the inhuman and counterproductive decision of the United States to expel thousands of Haitian refugees. and illegal immigrants in Haiti, a country where our officials are confined in secure complexes because of the danger posed by armed gangs controlling daily life
”, asserts Daniel Foote in his letter of resignation dated Wednesday, September 22 and addressed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The special envoy to Haiti, who had only been in post for two months since the death of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, accuses the head of American Diplomacy of having "
ignored his recommendations"
.
More unprecedented still, he condemns the interference of the United States in Haitian politics and, recently, his renewed support for Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry who currently holds the reins of the country.
Ariel Henry takes everyone by surprise
At the same time as this migratory crisis, in Port-au-Prince, the political class "is
playing its favorite game: chasing power
", writes Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of Le Nouvelliste.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry has just published in the official newspaper Le Moniteur his transition proposal: a "
political agreement for peaceful governance
".
In addition to the head of government, the text is signed by well-known figures of the former opposition to President Jovenel Moïse and illustrious strangers.
The agreement has eight sections that range from governance, governance mechanisms to general provisions.
Meet the "gunlovers"
After reading that there were more privately owned firearms in the United States than people in the country, the Italian-born photographer Gabriele Galimberti went to meet these "gunlovers", the passionate about weapons.
His photos for National Geographic were exhibited at the “Visa pour l'image” International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France, in early September 2021, where Cléa Broadhurst met him.
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