When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry attempted on Sunday to lead a ceremony commemorating the death of one of the country’s founding fathers, his delegation was met with a volley of gunfire that forced officials to withdraw.
“There is no plan, no way to fight insecurity. The national police force has not been strengthened.”
Security experts suspect the involvement of a gang known as 400 Mawozo that controls Croix-des-Bouquets, a commune about 8 miles outside the capital. Sunday’s ceremony to honor Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who declared Haitian independence from France in 1804, had been planned for Pont-Rouge, the eastern entrance to downtown Port-au-Prince, where Dessalines was murdered in 1806.
The United States last month deported some 7,000 Haitians who had attempted to enter the country via Mexico.
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