Journal of Haiti and the Americas

Haiti: one year after the assassination of President Moïse, the descent into hell (1/5)

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A police officer during an anti-gang operation, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 28, 2022. © Odelyn Joseph/AP

By: Mikael Ponge

3 mins

All this week, on the first anniversary of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021, we return each day to a particular aspect of this assassination and its consequences: the investigation in Haiti and in the United States. , the challenge of political transition and today for this first issue, the exacerbation of violence and the difficulty of daily life for the population.

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On the night of July 6 to 7, 2021, President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in the bedroom of his private residence by an armed commando.

Since then, the gangs, which were proliferating well before the murder of the Head of State, have drastically increased their hold on the country, to the point of transforming daily life into hell for the inhabitants, especially in Port-au-Prince where approximately three millions of people.

According to the UN, nearly 200 people have been kidnapped in the month of May 2022 alone. For fear of being kidnapped, many residents of the capital only go out in case of extreme necessity, that is- ie in case of medical emergencies.

Others have chosen to settle in the provinces.

The daily life of Haitians, or the slow descent into hell, is a dossier by

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The Cul-de-Sac plain in Port-au-Prince, symbol of the "fury" of the gangs

It's a spine-chilling report: the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights in Haiti (RNDDH) investigated the carnage perpetrated by gangs in a neighborhood north of the capital Port-au-Prince, at the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, between April 24 and May 6, 2022. According to the Haitian NGO, 191 people were killed during these 2 weeks of war between the 400 Mawozo and the Chen Mechan base, many women raped and over 80 homes burned.

More than 150 children have been orphaned.

In its report, the RNDDH chose to interview surviving victims in order to clarify the circumstances of the violence.

Marie Rosy Auguste Ducena, program manager for the RNDDH denounces, she answers the questions of Achim Lippold denounces the "fury" of the gangs which

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Gangs which, according to the RNDHH, benefit from the support of the authorities

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Chile: the constituent submits its version of the new fundamental law

After a year of work, the Constituent Assembly presents this July 4, 2022 to President Gabriel Boric his draft of a new Constitution.

Nearly 400 articles supposed to respond to the demands made during the vast movement of anger in 2019. It is a question in particular of registering the right to abortion, of granting a certain autonomy to indigenous institutions, of promoting the environment.

A text that will be submitted to a referendum on September 4, 2022. According to a latest poll, 51% of those questioned plan to reject it.

This figure even climbs to 58% for those who have read the text.

The daily adds that 59% of Chileans distrust those who wrote it.

On the front page of the Journal de la 1ère

Two new war memorials degraded last weekend in two towns in Martinique.

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