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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 6, 2024, 09:31 PM Mar 6

Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered the country’s main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days.

As of midday Wednesday, Henry remained in Puerto Rico, where he landed the day before after he was barred from landing in neighboring Dominican Republic because officials there closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.

Locked out of his country for now, Henry appears to face an impasse as a growing number of officials call for his resignation or nudge him toward it.

Here’s what to know about the embattled prime minister and the crisis he faces:

WHO IS ARIEL HENRY?
The 74-year-old neurosurgeon who trained and worked in southern France got involved in Haitian politics in the early 2000s, when he became leader of a movement that opposed then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

https://apnews.com/article/haiti-prime-minister-gangs-resign-e583a191a2f800bc63752220a47dec0d

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Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 6 OP
The security council Mosby Mar 6 #1

Mosby

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1. The security council
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 10:50 PM
Mar 6

Should send UN troops to Haiti, and after the country is stabilized and the gangs suppressed at least, they could help set up and monitor national elections.

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