A huge crowd fills a street in Petit-Goave, a town located in the south-west of Haiti: we see in this photo of the news writer the demonstrations were well attended. ” Fuel shortage, insecurity, high cost of living, Port-au-Prince and provincial towns are on fire “, title the newspaper. The fire often appears in the photos of the Haitian press: barricades of burning tires in Alterpressstore on fire in Delmas 38, a town in Port-au-Prince, in Le Nouvelliste… Clashes broke out between demonstrators and those close to power in Delmas, where one person was killed, writes the newspaper: “ According to former parliamentarian Serge Jean Louis, a political activist was shot dead when armed individuals, hostile to the demonstration, fired towards the crowd. »
” Protesters strongly demand the resignation of de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henri from Haiti’s political leadership “, writing Alterpresswho precise that ” some wore red jerseys and were provided with a red card to symbolically sanction all those who are concerned by the alarming situation of the country “. In Cap-Haitien, writes Le Nouvellisteformer northern senator Moïse Jean Charles threatened to ” close commercial banks if the exchange rate of the dollar against the gourde is not less than 100 gourdes “.
In fact, during the demonstrations this Monday, August 22, writes The Nationalthe Board of Directors of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti met the press to announce ” a set of measures aimed at curbing the discount of the gourde against the US dollar, in particular the injection of 150 million into the foreign exchange market “. However, consider Rezonodwesthis ” council patraque is itself one of the main architects of the economic fiasco “.
Cuba tries to create a foreign exchange market
This Tuesday, August 23, Cuba will begin selling dollars to Cubans, three weeks after beginning to buy them back on the black market. Objective, explains in grandma Alejandro Gil, the Minister of the Economy: ” Create a foreign exchange market in the country and allow to increase the purchasing power of the Cuban peso “. This decision ” does not constitute the beginning of a foreign exchange market, because it does not include buying and selling, but it begins to establish a legality of transactions in the country “, insists the minister.
Juventud Rebelde specifies that 37 exchange offices have been authorized to sell dollars: every morning, the directors will say how many currencies they have and how many people can benefit from them. The opposition newspaper 14ymedio notes that yesterday the minister often “used the word ‘challenge’ to describe the forex market “.
Hundreds of classified documents at Donald Trump
In the United States, the aftermath of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s residence, with information given by the New York Times : The government has recovered more than 300 classified documents, including the documents returned in January, those given by Donald Trump’s aides to the Department of Justice in June, and those recovered this month during the search . By January, the National Archives had recovered 150 classified documents, which, the newspaper explains, “ caused very strong concern on the side of the Ministry of Justice, and contributed to the establishment of the criminal investigation which led the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago “.
Along with these revelations, Donald Trump “ seeks to temporarily block the FBI from studying the documents seized from his home “, writing The Hillasking the justice to appoint an independent expert to examine the documents, and to ensure that they do not include elements that, in their opinion, Donald Trump could keep ” confidential “. This is the first legal action by the former president since the August 8 search, notes the washington post.
For their part, announce Politico, a group of eight senators, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have asked the Biden administration for access to the seized documents, as a group of lawmakers from both camps had already done. . Which suggests, says the site, “ that Congress does not want to be kept out of the political and legal fallout from the search“. Historically, recalls Politico “ the executive has consistently resisted congressional demands for actions by security forces, believing that doing so could jeopardize investigations “.
In the United States, one in three Americans without access to abortion
After the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion, one in three American women lost all access to abortion in the state where they live, according to a count of the washington post – nearly 21 million Americans.
The newspaper specifies that several laws which should take effect in the coming days should increase this figure. Justice has blocked many of these bans, temporarily, in five states, but if these blockages are lifted, millions more women are affected.
Politico for its part, devotes an article to doctors, usually discreet, who today increasingly speak out to denounce the devastating consequences of laws prohibiting abortion. And MPs who are doctors themselves are trying to convince their colleagues to roll back the most restrictive and repressive parts of these laws.
Colombia withdraws from Ginebra consensus
The Ginebra consensus was signed last May in Brazil by 36 countries that do not support abortion. The Spectator recalls that Bogotá joined under the impetus of the Duque government. But that of the new president Gustavo Petro announces his withdrawal from this agreement, explaining that “Colombia will continue to be committed to promoting women’s health and meeting women’s health needs“.