Journal of Haiti and the Americas
Haiti: gang warfare continues in Cité Soleil
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Haitian armed forces patrol in a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, July 11, 2022. © AP / Odelyn Joseph
By: Mikael Ponge
2 mins
For ten days the bursts of automatic weapons crackle all day long in Cité Soleil, the most disadvantaged and densely populated commune in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
Two factions of gangs clash for control of the territory, and the number of victims continues to increase.
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West of the Haitian capital, gang warfare in Cité Soleil continues, terrorizing residents holed up in their homes.
This weekend, the UN put forward the figure of 234 people killed or injured between July 8 and 12, 2022, but this toll could be even heavier.
It went
"from 89 dead (...) on Wednesday July 13 to around 300 people killed this weekend"
.
Most of the victims are civilians, especially women and children, according to the director of the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights who speaks in Le Nouvelliste.
Urban guerrillas between gangs have multiplied in the metropolitan area: Croix des Bouquets, La Saline or the Cul-de-Sac plain... A context which obviously weighed on the organization of end-of-year school exams , like the Bac.
The Minister of Education Nesmy Manigat recognizes this at the microphone of
Amélie Baron.
An agreement in Panama
The government of Panama announced on Sunday, July 17, 2022, that it had reached an agreement with trade unions and community organizations to free all blocked roads in the country, and lower the price of fuel.
The government of center-left President Laurentino Cortizo and his interlocutors “
reached an agreement on the price of fuel at 3.25 dollars per gallon (3.78 liters) and the lifting of road blockades at the national level.
These agreements are the result of a consensus and the will of the parties to maintain social peace.
“, specified the presidency.
Previously, a first agreement had been concluded with communities in the west of the country.
The agreement also provided for a reduction in the price of gasoline in exchange for the unblocking of the roads by the demonstrators denouncing the high cost of living.
According to the newspaper
El Siglo
confirms that some roads have been cleared, but others are still cut, including the Panamerican.
In Venezuela, a hospital for stuffed animals
It is a hospital where one repairs, where one sews and where one cleans.
His particuliarity ?
Patients are stuffed animals.
In Caracas, Venezuela, Lilian Gluck, a 63-year-old teacher, turns her house into a stuffed animal hospital every week.
With several dozen volunteers, they collect and repair dolls, teddy bears and other toys sent to them from several cities in the country, sometimes even from abroad.
Once repaired, they are entrusted to schools, hospitals or associations which offer them to children throughout.
File of
Nils Sabin.
And on the front page of the Journal de la 1ère
Vacationers are back in Martinique.
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