Death on the corner. On the asphalt. Abandoned bodies. Camouflaged by flimsy cardboard. Piles of corpses. Neighbors locked in their homes because leaving means never coming back. This is Haiti today, at the mercy of armed gangs carrying out their final outrage They tried to enter the Central Bank.
In anarchy, the latest news from Haiti this Tuesday is an attack on the country’s central bank in Port-au-Prince, the capital largely controlled by armed gangs.
The attack was repelled and several attackers died, an agency source told AFP on Tuesday. The Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH) is one of the few institutions that has not fled the city center, where several criminal gangs They roam freely.
A group of “bandits” attacked their premises on Monday, a BRH source, who preferred to remain anonymous, told AFP.
Volunteers carry the body of a man murdered at dawn in Port-au-Prince. Photo: Reuters“Our security agents, together with the police and army, repelled the attack. Three to four bandits were killed,” the person said.
One of the BRH security guards was shot and injured, he added.
A new chapter of violence
Haiti, already experiencing a profound political and security crisis, has been plunged into a new episode of violence since the beginning of the month, whenor several gangs joined forces to attack strategic locations in Port-au-Prince as part of a battle against Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
Henry, heavily questioned at home and abroad, was unable to return to Haiti after a trip to Kenya.
The leader announced his resignation on March 11, saying his government would deal with current affairs until it is formed. a transitional presidential council.
Since then, Haitians have been waiting for the formation of these transitional authorities.
A woman cries at the scene of several deaths in the street. Photo: ReutersOn Monday, according to an AFP photographer, 14 lifeless bodies were found in a wealthy neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, where gang members had been carrying out attacks since dawn.
Piles of corpses
A correspondent from the British BBC network reported the same thing. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier part of the city, were shockedIt’s the most violent day yet in the country’s growing security crisis.
More than a dozen bullet-riddled bodies They lay in the street: victims of the latest gang attack.
More than a dozen bullet-riddled bodies lay in the street. Photo: ReutersIn addition to the morning massacre, she was also attacked a judge’s house, a clear message to the country’s elites competing for power.
All this in what supposedly It is the safe area of the citysays the BBC journalist, who describes the situation in Port-au-Prince “in panic”.
The population, the main victim
The violence in Haiti has the population as its main victim: the Haitians, as well as be exposed to death or injury, Furthermore, they cannot move freely, go to medical centers, go to school or access basic services run the risk of having to abandon their homes and become internally displaced.
Violence in Haiti has the population as its main victim. Photo: ReutersUNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell described the situation in Haiti of “horrible” and compared Anarchy to the post-apocalyptic film Mad Max.
Certainly, the latest violence in Port-au-Prince reminds us, if any were needed, that Haiti remains closer to anarchy than stability.
Source: Clarin
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