Haiti: protest grows, presidential palace armored

2021-02-27T08:07:41.425Z

The capital Port-au-Prince blocked in many neighborhoods, the police throwing tear gas and blocking the presidential palace, the demonstrators trying to break through the barriers and throwing stones: the protest in Haiti, where thousands of people descended, has grown over the hours in the streets to protest corruption and demand the resignation of President Juvenal Moise. Some reports also speak of gunshots: a man allegedly was shot in the chest and died in an ambulance before arriving at the hospital. The protests are targeting the use of about 3.4 billion euros deriving from the supplies of low-priced oil from Venezuela from the Petrocarive program, of the year 2005. In the abuse of that money they would be involved, as established by a Senate commission Haitian, at least 14 government officials of the then president Michel Martelly.