{"id":256718,"date":"2024-03-11T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=256718"},"modified":"2024-03-07T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T07:12:00","slug":"3-things-to-know-about-the-current-crisis-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/03\/3-things-to-know-about-the-current-crisis-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Things to Know about the Current Crisis in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A demonstrator holds up a Haitian flag during protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, 1 Mar 2024.\u00a0 Odelyn Joseph\/AP<\/p><\/div>\n

6 Mar 2024<\/em> – Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency, after gangs attacked the capital city’s most important prisons over the weekend, releasing thousands of inmates. The country’s airport is under siege, and on Monday evening, it was still not clear whether Haiti’s de facto prime minister had made it back into the country.<\/p>\n

Monique Clesca, a well-known activist in Haiti, says the weekend represented “three days of terror.”<\/p>\n

“Gangs paraded throughout Port-au-Prince with their arms openly,” she told NPR. “It wasn’t done at night and the police was nowhere to be found.”<\/p>\n