Journal of Haiti and the Americas
Demonstrations in Haiti: "It's a powder keg, it will explode" according to Gessica Geneus
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Gessica Geneus, June 16, 2016. © GettyImages/Johnny Louis
By: Mikael Ponge
2 mins
The excitement has subsided in Haiti, the situation seems calm, but until when?
After the demonstrations at the beginning of the week, other calls to protest were launched.
Haitian director Gessica Geneus gives us her view of this popular protest movement.
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Her film
Freda
, with which she enjoyed critical and popular success, described the difficulties of daily life for Haitians. Haitian director
Gessica Geneus
returns for us to the three days of demonstrations that punctuated the beginning of the week in the country.
In Port-au-Prince, but also in several provincial towns, thousands of people took to the streets to denounce the high cost of living, insecurity, and demand the resignation of the Prime Minister.
How to explain this popular uprising?
“
The question isn't why it's come to this, but how did we manage to endure so much before it came to this
?
“according to the filmmaker.
“
How do you manage to hold on without wanting to destroy everything
?
»
is, according to her, the real question.
"
There have to be measures, there has to be satisfaction and relief, but if you're left on your own, the inevitable will happen
,"
predicts Gessica Geneus.
Towards a reopening of the border between Colombia and Venezuela?
Since 2015, the border between Colombia and Venezuela has been closed, with rare reopenings.
A decision taken at the time by Venezuela after an attack by suspected Colombian paramilitaries against a Venezuelan patrol.
Four years later, the two countries severed their diplomatic relations.
But since last June, with the arrival of Gustavo Petro to power in Colombia, the time has come to relax: the two countries have exchanged ambassadors, and they promise to reopen their borders.
So why is a reopening so important for both countries?
It is a file signed
Christophe Paget
.
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the president outgoing Jair Bolsonaro, spoke on Monday
.
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Lula was detained between April 2018 and November 2019 after his corruption conviction.
He regained all his political rights in 2021, when the Supreme Court overturned his convictions, finding that the court that
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