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“ The high cost of living, accentuated in recent days by gang violencewas the backdrop for this mobilization “, summary Metropolis. The Nouvelliste gave the floor to several witnesses to the blockages at the capital’s port. “ The gangs compete for control of territory to extort fees for containers leaving the port, one of them told the newspaper. As a result, activities there have been at a standstill for more than ten days. Customs agents cannot go there because they are terrorized and intimidated by the thugs », Continues a witness interviewed by the daily.
Several political and social platforms such as the steering committee for the national cohesion of Haitian political parties, CONAPPH, or the “Nou konsyan” structure are issuing an ultimatum to the government to resign, both skeptical of the efforts attributed to Ariel Henry to reach an agreement with the opposition parties. CONAPPH, whose spokesperson is quoted in The Nationalcalls on the population to “ rise up for a return to democratic and constitutional order “.
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Yonyon, from kidnappings to arms trafficking
Gang violence will perhaps find part of its explanation in the trial which is opening in the United States, that of gang leader Germine Joly, alias Yonyon, accused of the kidnapping of American missionaries. This trial could be a window into how Haitian armed groups operate, and the link between arms trafficking from the United States and kidnappings », estimates Jacqueline Charles in the Miami Herald. Germine Joly is not on trial for this kidnapping, but among other things, for the export of weapons from the United States, without a license.
“ The prosecution nevertheless hopes to demonstrate through the traces of his telephone contacts from his Haitian cell that Joly directed the kidnappings carried out by the 400 Mawozo gang. », Continues the Florida newspaper. Activities which then made it possible to obtain weapons. Holding this trial of violence in Haiti on American soil makes sense, according to a magistrate interviewed by the Miami Herald, given the role of the United States in arms trafficking. Germine Joly is the first gang leader extradited to the United States and also the most important ever presented to judges.
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Mexico mourns the death of José Agustin, a major literary figure
He was considered the greatest representative of the “ wave literature » (literatura de la onda, in Spanish), an expression that he rejected, but which sought to designate the rupture that the man embodied in the literary landscape of his country “, remember Process. The writer, author of The Tumba and of In profile“ marked a generation and endowed his work with irreverence and an innovative language, incorporating English, street talk, rock and puns “, underlines the Razon. Assimilated by the foreign press to a “ little brother of Kerouac, or Jim Morrison ” remember the processthe writer also journalist and theater man passed away after a decline in his health since the end of December.