Canada: "Justin Trudeau's room for maneuver is narrow"
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikael Ponge Follow
2 mins
Protests against health restrictions continue.
It's been 13 days now that some 500 trucks have blocked downtown Ottawa, the federal capital.
And the sling is spreading, since the truckers have also begun to block two strategic bridges that connect Canada to the United States.
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Faced with this rumble, several Canadian provinces have decided to let go by announcing the end of the vaccine passport or a reduction in other health measures.
But despite these announcements, the trucks did not move an inch yesterday, February 9, 2022. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under pressure today.
Denouncing “unacceptable blockages which threaten the economy”, he declared before the elected representatives of Parliament:
“You cannot stop a pandemic with blockages.
You cannot end a pandemic by fiat.
Ending a pandemic requires science
.
But how can Justin Trudeau get away with it?
"His leeway is narrow because he was slow to react, and reacted too radically at the start," said Frédéric Boily, professor of political science at the University of Alberta.
“It closed the door to discussion”
with some of the demonstrators, according to him.
“We should have had a more conciliatory approach,”
he sums up.
Haiti: Port-au-Prince and power cuts
It is on the front page of the daily newspaper
Le Nouvelliste
, this February 10, 2022. The new director general of Electricity of Haiti, a company which has the exclusive distribution and production of Energy in Haiti, reports a dilemma: he can only supply 5 hours a day of electric current per circuit supplied by his company, in the metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince.
“In this situation of forfeiture and expiry, can the EDH afford to consume 115,000 gallons of diesel daily at the Carrefour 3 Station alone?
“Decisions are necessary according to him, as reported by Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of the daily.
Beginning of the trial of Jeanine Añez in Bolivia
"Political prisoner" for some, "putschist" for others: the trial of the former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Añez, in power between 2019 and 2020, opened on February 10, 2022 in La Paz.
Incarcerated for eleven months, she is accused of having led a "coup d'etat" in November 2019 against the former left-wing president Evo Morales, released by the army after strong popular protest.
She is being prosecuted for “decisions contrary to the Constitution” and “breach of duty”.
On the eve of the trial to be held virtually, the former president announced that she was starting a hunger strike.
“I am desperate to see a country without justice and law,”
she said.
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