Haiti Anti-government Protests

Haiti is in full revolution mode. The people are screaming for change. They hate the De Facto Prime minister, Ariel Henry. They want nothing to do with current government which they hold responsible for gang violence in Haiti. Yet, the United States and the rest of world is blind and deaf to the plea of the people.

Haiti is gripped by a fervent revolution. From Cap-Haitien in the north to Le Cayes in the South, citizens vehemently demanding change and expressing disdain for De Facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

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Petion-Ville witnessed anti-government demonstrations spearheaded by political activist Rosemond Jean Wednesday, 30 January 2024. The protesters fervently demand the departure of Ariel Henry from power, creating a tense atmosphere in the streets.

Citizens blocked the roads with barricades made of burning tires. As tensions rise, the city finds itself at the epicenter of political unrest.

The people of Haiti are dissatisfied with the current government. they call for change. Protests in Pétion-Ville reflect a broader societal discontent demanding a new system of government.

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Haiti's opposition has announces a march towards the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince Friday, 06 December, 2019, to force the United States to let go of president Jovenel Moise.

Andre Michel, one of the leading spoke persons for the oppostion made it clear that The U.S. Embassy is the only barricade stopping the opposition from getting rid of President Jovenel Moise.

All the opposition leaders are ecpected to attend this anti government street protest.

Andre Michel invited everyone to attend, even if you are not in opposition, he said.

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"Even if opposition leaders lead the anti-JovenelMoise movement, they must know that they are unloved," an newspaper article from Le Nouvelliste reads.

The elections held throughout the country since the end of the dictatorship of the Duvaliers prove it.

The population still elects an outsider to the post of President of the Republic at the expense of political leaders active in the field.

The cohabitation between an outsider president and the so-called traditional political leaders is always problematic. Hence, one of the causes of the political instability that the country has been experiencing since the fall of the Duvaliers.

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In other democratic countries, the opposition keeps an eye on the missteps of the politicians in power to advance their cause. In Haiti it is different. In Haiti the opposition is more like "wete ko'w pou m mete kò m" (move aside so I can take your place).

In every other country in the world, there exists an opposition but in Haiti we set up the opposition in a completely different way, one colleague said in a a discussion.

Democrat and Republicans in the United States are in a constant battle to take control of the White House or the majority in parliament but there is no fighting in the streets, no barricades, no militants preventing children from going to school or employees from going to work, a Diaspora argued.

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From tens of thousands of protesters in the Streets of Haiti to only a few hundred Sunday November 10, 2019, It seems the anti government protests in Haiti is loosing momentum.

Opposition senator Ricard Pierre said he thinks bribes and fear were partly to blame for the small crowd.

Read the full article from https://www.voanews.com/americas/haiti-anti-government-protests-lose-momentum

What do you think about that?

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The opposition in Haiti made an attempt to come up with a unanimuos decision over who should replace President Jovenel Moise if and when he decides to submit his resignation but that didn't happen. Fanmi Lavalas is opposed.

The majority of those in opposition signed an agreement saying a judge from the Cour de cassation should replace President Jovenel Moise but Fannmi Lavalas who was at the 3-day meeting in Marriott Hotel says otherwise.

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The opposition in Haiti, via Andre Michel, announced yet another week of barricades, roadblocks and protests to force President Jovenel Moise to resign.

Andre Michel announced starting Monday November 4th 2019 "The country will locked everywhere and the barricades will go higher".

"This entire week will be a week if mobilization and combat," the opposition attorney said.

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Red Alert... Millions of people in Haiti who are NOT protesting in the streets are taken hostage by those who are claiming their constitutional right to protest, as if the rest of us have no constitutional right to live in peace.

In Haiti, one group of people say "the constitution gives us the right to protest" and with that single right they have turned the lives of the rest of the people of Haiti, who are not protesting, into a living hell.

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Education Minister Pierre Josue Agenor Cadet made a plea to the opposition and the people in the streets protesting to Haiti's school children a change to go back to school.

The government launched the the opening of school since September 09, 2010. While school is functioning in many provinces in the country, in the capital and many major cities, for more than four weeks, children cannot go to school due to social unrest and the violence that comes with it.

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