SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – Haiti’s Prime Minister, Dr. Ariel Henry, has arrived in Puerto Rico, ending hypothesis as to his whereabouts as his Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) nation stays gripped in an ongoing disaster that might result in his elimination from workplace.
US media, quoting Sheila Angleró Mojica, the spokesperson for the Governor of Puerto Rico, mentioned that Henry, who got here to energy following the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moise, had landed there on Tuesday.
Mojica didn’t have extra particulars however added that “federal brokers from the CBP [US Customs and Border Protection] are in cost” with out elaborating.
Henry had traveled from Kenya, the place he signed an settlement permitting a United Nations Safety Council-sanctioned worldwide power led by the African nation to revive peace and safety in his troubled nation.
However the legal gangs which have all however taken over the capital, Port au Prince, mentioned a brand new authorities would quickly be put in. A choose, Durin Duret Jr., can be chairman, assisted by former insurgent chief and former police commissioner Man Philippe and Francoise Saint-Vil Villier, from the spiritual sector, an in depth ally to Moise.
“PM Henry and all the opposite members of the federal government should resign, or they’ll face the results,” the outspoken leftist political chief Jean-Charles Moise informed journalists on Tuesday.
“Many ministers and different authorities officers have gone into hiding as a result of they’re nowhere to be discovered,” Moise mentioned, promising that authorities members who cooperate would don’t have anything to concern.
However he warned, “Those that would stay trustworthy to Ariel Henry must face the inhabitants’s anger and can be wanted and chased.”
On Tuesday, in a short video assertion, Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, who can be the CARICOM chairman, mentioned the 15-member regional grouping is engaged in discussions with the assorted stakeholders in Haiti, the place the authorities have been pressured to impose a curfew and state of emergency as they search to regain management of the island following final weekend’s safety state of affairs that resulted in a number of inmates being freed by legal gangs.
“CARICOM has been singularly targeted on the occasions unfolding in Haiti over the previous couple of days,” he mentioned, including, “the expanded Bureau (of Heads) has been assembly individually with Prime Minister Henry, the stakeholders in Haiti, and our worldwide companions to deliver decision to this extremely complicated matter the place individuals stay, and livelihood are at stake.”
Ali mentioned that the “complexity requires us in these consultations to make sure that a Haitian-led and Haitian-owned answer could also be achieved as quickly as doable”.
“We stay deeply engaged and can replace you on the result of our deliberations as quickly as practicable,” Ali mentioned within the video assertion, which made no particular reference to or condemnation of final weekend’s legal gang actions.
The legal gangs are threatening to gun down any plane flying Prime Minister Henry again to the troubled Caribbean nation.
Footage obtained by the Haitian-Caribbean Information Community (HCNN) exhibits a person standing on the roof of a sports activities utility car and firing a machine gun towards the runway.
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