Haitians burn tyres, intensify protests in continuing push for president's ouster

Record ID: 1436190

  • Title: Haitians burn tyres, intensify protests in continuing push for president's ouster
  • Date: 11th October 2019
  • Summary: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (OCTOBER 11, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS, CROWD OF PROTESTERS MARCHING, HOLDING SHRUBS UP IN THE AIR, DRUMMING VARIOUS, PROTESTERS IN THE STREETS, BARRICADES AND BURNING FABRICS BLOCKING MOTORCYCLE TRAFFIC (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER, SAYING: "I want Jovenel (Jovenel Moise, Haiti's president) to go! He is involved in the La Saline murder (popular neighborhood in the Haitian capital). Many children can't go to school. I want him to go. He has to go. We can't put up with this misery. It is too much. Aba Jovenel" CROWDS OF PROTESTERS WEARING FACE MASKS MARCHING, GIVING MIDDLE FINGER TO CAMERA / AUDIO OF MUSIC CROWD OF PROTESTERS MARCHING TYRES BURNING BLOCKING STREET / PAN TO HEAP OF TRASH (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER, SAYING: "We ask the Americans to come get Jovenel. Jovenel cannot stay any longer. He and his cabinet belong in jail." LARGE CROWD OF PROTESTERS MARCHING (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) PROTESTER, ASSAD VOLCY, SAYING: "We are headed to Petion-ville where we'll camp for two hours. Once we are there, the president will not have other choice but to hand us his resignation letter, within two hours. If he doesn't hand it out to us, we'll come get it in his house. All neighborhoods must stand up!" VARIOUS, SEVERAL SMALL BRICK BARRICADES ON STREET OUTSIDE NATIONAL PALACE / TRAFFIC ZIGZAGGING THEIR WAY THROUGH BRICKS MOTORCYCLES DRIVING PAST BURNING TYRES
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2019 19:02
  • Keywords: Protesters clashes police Néhémie Joseph resignation president Jovenel Moïse
  • Location: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
  • City: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
  • Country: Haiti
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B0NNG3R
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS PROFANITY IN SHOT 4
    Haitians burned tyres and intensified protests on Friday (October 11) blocking traffic in parts of the capital leading to the presidential palace where crowds asking for the country's president resignation where headed.
    Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has been rocked by violent protests in the last month that have led schools, public offices and businesses to close and forced non-governmental organizations to suspend aid distribution.
    Opposition leaders and their supporters in the nation of 11 million are calling for the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, 51, amid anger over fuel and food shortages, a steep currency devaluation and corruption allegations.
    This is the longest stretch of demonstrations against Moise since they broke out last year. At least 17 people have been killed and 189 injured, according to Haiti's National Network for the Defense of Human Rights.
    (Production: Temis Tormo)
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