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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — First the gangs blocked the roads to
Haiti’s capital. Then they attacked the airport. Now they have
breached the city’s main port, cutting off the capital from one
of its last remaining lifelines for food and supplies as the
country teeters toward collapse.
On Wednesday night, dozens of gang members stormed the most
important port terminal in Port-au-Prince, looting containers,
damaging the port’s security apparatus and forcing the terminal
to suspend its operations indefinitely, according to Philippe
Coles, the president of Caribbean Port Services, which operates
the terminal.
“It’s total paralysis right now,” Coles said in an interview with
The Washington Post. “The gangs have the control. They have the
upper hand.”
The port’s closure could have disastrous consequences for a
capital that is now 80 percent controlled by gangs who, over the
past week, have terrorized residents with a wave of killings,
kidnappings and attacks on police stations. Thousands of inmates
escaped the two biggest prisons over the weekend. The stench of
dead bodies on the streets has prompted some families to leave
their homes, human rights activists say. Gang members have
encircled the international airport, forcing the suspension of
flight operations, and have set fire to police stations. Gang
roadblocks nationwide have made it nearly impossible to reach the
capital by land. The country’s border with the Dominican Republic
is closed. Even the country’s embattled prime minister has been
unable to return to his country; earlier this week, he flew to
Puerto Rico instead.
“Everything has stopped. Medical supplies, food cannot come to Port-au-Prince. Right now nothing can enter by sea, by air, or by
road,” said one manager in the shipping sector, who asked to
remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to
reporters. “It’s a disaster. Hunger will be the next step.”
If the public had guns, the gangsters would already be dead.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/07/haiti-gangs-port/
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