Journal of Haiti and the Americas

Haiti: the displaced from gang wars, forgotten by the government

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Residents who were displaced from their homes due to clashes between armed gangs in La Plaine, are checked at a mobile medical clinic in the Tabare neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, May 13, 2022. © AP Photo /Odelyn Joseph

By: Mikael Ponge

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Martissant in 2021, the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac in April 2022, Cité Soleil last April… Three areas from which thousands of families have had to flee in the face of the fury of the war waged by armed gangs for the control of these territories.

Displaced people forced to live in precariousness, largely forgotten by the government.

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At least 471 people were killed, injured or missing during clashes between gangs in Cité Soleil, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, according to the UN, in July 2022. Some 3,000 residents were forced to flee their houses, like those of the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac before them, another zone of a bloody war between rival gangs.

Now, many live in appalling conditions near Toussaint-Louverture International Airport.

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 ", says one of the men who found refuge there, the political authorities having completely left these populations delivered to them. -same.

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Chile two weeks away from the constitutional referendum

There are only two weeks left before the September 4 referendum where the population will have to vote "for" or "against" the new constitution intended to replace the one currently in force written under the Pinochet dictatorship.

And a few days before the election, the two camps are mobilizing more than ever.

This weekend, August 20 and 21, 2022, several hundred people in favor of the new text gathered near the national stadium in the capital.

A highly symbolic place of memory since it was a center of torture during the dictatorship.

But this weekend, the atmosphere was festive and the hope of seeing the new constitution win was on everyone's mind.

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Arturo Zaldivar, the head of the Supreme Court of Mexico, protects the right to abortion

While the right to abortion is declining in the United States, it is gaining ground in Mexico.

In particular thanks to a man: Arturo Zaldivar.

Head of the Mexican Supreme Court, he last year, in 2021, made unconstitutional any sanction against women who would have recourse to an abortion.

Coming from a Catholic and conservative family, he relied on the women in his professional circle to defend the right to abortion.

A powerful symbol for feminist associations that have been fighting for their rights for decades.

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On the front page of the Journal de la 1ère 

The president of the Collectivity of Martinique is launching a public interest group devoted to the delicate question of joint ownership.

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