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Haiti: the street calls Ariel Henry to resign

Audio 7:30 p.m.

Protesters marched through the Haitian capital and other major cities, blocking roads and closing businesses to demand that Prime Minister Ariel Henry resign and call for a better quality of life.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, August 22, 2022. © AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph

By: Mikael Ponge

2 mins

The resignation of the Prime Minister was one of the watchwords yesterday, Monday August 22, in Haiti in the demonstrations which punctuated the day in several cities.

At least one person has died in Port-au-Prince, the capital.

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Expression of an exhausted population, hundreds of people demonstrated yesterday, in Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes, Jacmel, Nippes, but also in Gonaïves, to denounce insecurity, inflation, the depreciation of currency and fuel shortages.

But among the slogans also yesterday, the call for the resignation of the head of government, Ariel Henry, held responsible for the deterioration of the current situation.

A demonstrator was shot dead when the Haitian National Police violently dispersed in Delmas 38, in the capital's metropolitan area.

While the population was in the streets, the central bank of Haiti announced a set of measures aimed at curbing the discount of the gourde against the US dollar, including the injection of 150 million on the foreign exchange market.

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Presidential in Brazil: first TV interview for Jair Bolsonaro

In the middle of the campaign, the candidate president gave his first interview to a television news.

Monday August 22, 2022, Jair Bolsonaro was the first to launch this cycle of interviews on the Globo channel, to which the four candidates at the top of the polls will submit this week.

A first for him, who during the last elections had not participated in any debate or television interview, after being stabbed during his campaign.

Always given the loser in the polls against Lula, Jair Bolsonaro has bet on lies and false information.

United States: Jaws in Florida?

This summer and like every year in the United States, shark attacks on the Florida coast regularly make the front page of local newspapers.

If the number of incidents stagnates around forty per year in the country, global warming could multiply the opportunities for interactions between humans and animals.

The warming of the waters disrupts the migration corridors of sharks, but also their eating habits.

However, specialists point out that humans are not among the prey of sharks, despite the images conveyed by popular culture.

Dogs, bears and alligators cause far more deaths and injuries each year in the United States.

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Still a little over a week of waiting before the official opening of the "cruise season" in Martinique.

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