Opposition Ready for Anti-Government Protests in Haiti
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Port-au-Prince, Mar 25 ( Prensa Latina) The Haitian coalition Democratic and Popular Sector is ready Monday to relaunch the anti-government mobilization throughout the country, scheduled for next Friday.
According to their organizers, they are willing to talk, 'but not with President Jovenel Moise,' whom they accuse of mismanagement regarding the government, and of deepening the socio-political and economic crisis.
Representatives of this group met U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on a visit to Haiti last Wednesday, during which they ratified their position, as confirmed by Joseph Manes Louis, MP for Fanmi Lavalas' party.
The Democratic Sector began consultations with different political structures in mid-March, to agree on strategies leading to the end of the current government, and met with the leaders of Ayiti an aksyon, as well as the former secretary general of the National Progressive Democrats Group Mirlande Hyppolite Manigat and representatives of the organization Religion for Peace.
For the association, 'this will be the last round of the battle against the President,' and it plans the creation of a vast national mobilization movement this Friday on the 32nd anniversary of the Constitution.
The denunciations include the growing inflation that increases the prices of basic necessities, and the devaluation of the national currency against the dollar, as well as the execution of a trial in the file of misappropriation of Petrocaribe's funds, which involves some 15 former officials, and even a company run by the Head of State. Last February, this group managed to paralyze Port-au-Prince and other cities such as Jacmel and Les Cayes for almost 10 days, in an operation named Blockade of the Country.
During that week, the main services such as water, electricity, fuel, as well as access to hospitals, schools, workplaces, and others were interrupted.
Several governments raised the highest travel ban to the country, and Haiti was removed from the list of tourist destinations in major online travel agencies, while several airlines suspended or decreased their frequency of flights to the Caribbean nation, which for some experts will have a negative impact on the Haitian economy.
The government, for its part, dictated measures to confront the protests, which aim to reduce the Executive's budget by 30 percent, fight corruption, stop the devaluation of the national currency against the dollar and lower the prices of basic necessities.


