Prime Minister Ariel Henry said the government could no longer subsidize fuel. Looters have attacked businesses, government offices and a World Food Program warehouse.
“Ariel Henry doesn’t have sympathy for the Haitian people,” Fortuné, 42, told The Washington Post. “The increase of the gas price is a provocation. It’s further proof of his arrogance. The misery in the country will get worse.”from the beleaguered capital to the ordinarily tranquil cities of Gonaïves in the north and Jérémie in the southwest.
“Do you find it normal that the state wants to launch social programs and is only able to collect 3 billion gourdes when we are spending more than 50 billion gourdes to subsidize fuel for people who can pay the normal rate?” he asked in a national address on Sunday. “We will have to adjust fuel prices.”more than double from $2.10 to $4.79. A gallon of diesel would jump from $2.97 to $5.63 and kerosene from $2.96 to $5.59.
Few Haitians believe him. As gangs have increased their stranglehold on the Haitian capital in the last year, they say,Scores of Haitians, including entire families, have been killed in violent clashes between warring gangs in recent months. Thousands more have been displaced. Civilians have been trapped in their homesRalph Chevry, a board member of the Haiti Center for Socio Economic Policy in Port-au-Prince, called the fuel announcement “the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Intermittent fuel shortages and chronic blackouts, driven in part by contract disputes and the security crisis,
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