Haiti police and protesters clashed this week as frustration over the rising cost of living and the government buildings in the Caribbean island nation.
Police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters on Wednesday in Haiit’s capital Port-au-Prince, video from the scene showed.
Local blog Haiti Libre reported that protesters left the ruins of Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Bel Air and walked along several roads as the group swelled into the thousands under “heavy police surveillance.”
“Protesters hurled about hostile to the Head of State, whom they accused of all evils and allow to the Prime Minister which according to them is not credible. They demanded once more, the departure of the team in power and its replacement by a provisional government in charge of organizing general elections… A position that divides the apparent unity of the opposition… Signs in hand, chanting anti-government about, throwing everything they found in their path, some demonstrators shouting that the revolution had begun…”
Senator Moïse Jean-Charles said at the protest: “We must not allow Martelly to end with the country. He must go and we are committed to this fight,” he said.
Rudy Heriveaux, the new minister of communications, was also the subject of angry protestors because his claim of fighting against misinformation is actually a ploy to take away freedom of the press, some protestors said.
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