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In the news: Haiti is slowing down after renewed violence
In the streets of Port-au-Prince, March 4, 2024 © Odelyn Joseph / AP
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After the violence of recent days, including the attack on two prisons this weekend, much of the country is slowing down.
However, certain towns like Port-de-Paix in the north of the country are less affected by the latest wave of violence, reports
Le Nouvelliste
.
Schools, stores and banks were operating normally there on Monday March 4.
The country is experiencing an “
unprecedented situation
” with armed gangs
who
“
plunge the country even further into chaos
”
,
writes
Le Nouvelliste
.
“
A chaos
” for which Prime Minister Ariel Henry is held directly responsible by the opposition parties, adds the daily.
Ariel Henry stuck in the United States
According to information from
Radio Télé Métronome
, the Haitian Prime Minister is currently in the United States.
He had tried to return to Port-au-Prince on Monday March 4, but had to give up because the airport was attacked by gangs and all flights were canceled.
Radio Télé Métronome reports that Ariel Henry had requested help from the American government to facilitate his return to the country via a military plane.
Which the Biden administration categorically refused.
But the head of the Haitian government has every intention of returning to his country.
This is what a spokesperson for the US State Department declared on Monday March 4, comments reported by
Gazette Haiti
.
However, he did not specify when this will be the case.
The United States, while showing concern about the deterioration of the situation, refused to immediately send troops to Haiti to support the police.
The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump's ineligibility is illegal
This Tuesday, November 5, is the big election day in the United States, where 15 states are organizing primaries to decide between candidates for their party's nomination.
Yesterday Monday, the Supreme Court made an important decision for Republican candidate Donald Trump.
The nine judges unanimously overturned a Colorado court ruling which declared Donald Trump ineligible because of his role in the assault on the Capitol.
The Supreme Court did not rule on the merits of the case, recalls
The
New York Times
, but ruled that a state could not exclude a candidate from the ballots for this reason.
The decision was expected, because we are voting today in Colorado.
And according to the
New York Times
, the court's attempt to ban the Republican Party's favorite from the polls caused a shock among his voters.
“
They think the Democrats are stealing their electoral rights
,” explains a conservative official, who is delighted with the mobilization of pro-Trump supporters.
Donald Trump, a threat to democracy?
According to
Politico
, Democrats must once and for all understand that they must beat Donald Trump at the ballot box and not in the courts.
The Supreme Court “
dealt
a blow to any Democratic hope that an external force, judicial a priori, would come to save the party from a possible re-election of the former president
”
.
The decision of the nine judges also undermines a key argument of the Democrats, namely that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.
Certainly, writes
Politico
, the Supreme Court has not ruled on the question of whether or not Donald Trump incited his troops to insurrection in order to overturn the results of the polls.
But the judges “
rejected efforts by the former president’s detractors to disqualify him for this reason
.”
This decision, in any case, Politico concludes, comes at a time when according to polls, it is not profitable for Democrats to present Donald Trump as a threat to democracy.
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