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The government of Haiti This Thursday, the state of emergency was extended for a month in the department of Oeste, where the capital is located. Prince Port, and prolonged the curfew another four days due to the situation of insecurity and violence.
In a decree published in a special issue of the official newspaper of Haiti, ‘The monitor’, and signed by the Council of Ministers, it is reported “the order that establishes the state of emergency in matters of security throughout the entire extension of the department of the West for a period of one month.”
Specifically, in a subsequent statement signed by the interim prime minister, Patrick Michel Boivert, in the absence of the head of government Ariel Henry, It is detailed that the state of emergency will govern from March 7 until April 3.
In addition, the Government decrees a curfew in that department for this Thursday friday and saturday from 18:00 to 5:00 local time and domingo from 20:00 to 5:00 local time.
This measure excludes the law enforcement officers, firefighters, ambulance personnel, paramedics, and journalists duly identified.
Furthermore, it was detailed that its objective is “restore order and take appropriate measures in order to regain control of the situation”, add the text.
In addition, Any demonstration on public roads is prohibited, both day and night, in the Western department.
“Law enforcement agencies have been mandated to use all legal means at their disposal to enforce the curfew and arrest those who violate it,” according to the note.
Total crisis in Haiti
These decisions are made after the state of emergency and the extendable 72-hour curfew decreed on Sunday for that area expired on Wednesday.
All this, due to the escalation of tension that has been experienced in the country for a week at the hands of armed gangs and in the absence of Ariel Henry, currently in Puerto Rico.
Violence increased after the Prime Minister’s commitment to hold elections no later than August 2025 was announced on Thursday last week.
Since then, the bands, who claim to be pursuing Ariel Henry’s departure from power, They have increased their attacks and shootings are taking place, especially in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
Last Saturday, the assault on the two main prisons in the capital by armed groups allowed more than 3,000 prisoners to escape.
The escalation of violence began with Ariel Henry out of the country after attending the summit of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and travel to Kenya to address the multinational security mission approved by the UN and that that African country will lead.
Now Henry is in Puerto Rico, where he landed on Tuesday after failing to do so in Dominican Republic and after several days in unknown whereabouts.
