Petroleum terminals are blocked by criminal bands that make their law on Haiti. Electrical power plants can not work anymore, the whole country is stopped.
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A dry break across a country: For several weeks, Haiti has been paralyzed by a serious fuel shortage, which further complicates the daily life of an already hard-hit population. The Caribbean country, plagued by a serious political, economic and safe crisis since the beginning of the year, and in particular since the assassination of President Joovel Moses in July, had also undergone, a shot, a powerful earthquake that has Makes several hundred thousand victims in August, then a hurricane.
These plagues are aggravated by an explosion of the crime that makes the Haitians live in the fear of the crapful kidnappings committed by surrogated bands that make their law on the country, with impunity. According to the Human Rights Analysis and Research Center (CARDM), gangs have committed more than 782 ransom abductions since the beginning of the year. Sixteen American citizens and a Canadian, kidnapped on October 16, are still in the hands of the group “400 Mawozo”.
Episodic fuel shortages have nothing new in Haiti. But this one differs from the previous ones by its length and gravity. The country is dry, and in Port-au-Prince, the usual tumult has silence. “Due to insecurity, well before this problem of fuel scarcity, everyone tended to quickly return home. Around 5 pm, the streets were empty, says Rosy Auguste Ducena, program manager to the NGO National Human Rights Network. Now with this fuel problem, the streets are calm throughout the day. The very few people circulating are those who have been able to obtain it at a very high price or who have Reserves. “
State responsibility
The cause of this dramatic situation: gangs, again. And, especially, a man, Jimmy Cherzier alias “barbecue”. This former agent of the National Police is now at the head of the “G9 FANMI E ALYE”, a coalition of armed tapes which has introduced a real blockade of the petroleum terminals of the country. The malfrats rank the government and retain the population hostage: “They want money. We have heard about the feminous sum of US $ 50 million [43.2 million euros] to pass tank trucks “, Indines M me Augustus Ducena.
The fuel crisis also has a political dimension. Jimmy Cherzier claims the resignation of the Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, who came to power in July after the assassination of President Moses. “The authorities have shocked with the gangs to sit their power, but they returned against them. Now it’s all the country that is gangsterized”, denounces Rosy Auguste Ducena.
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