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More than 20 dead and 15 injured in an attack by an armed gang in Haiti
More than 20 people died and at least 15 were injured in an attack by the Gran Grif armed gang in the town of Pont Sonde in Haiti, local sources reported on Thursday.
It is not ruled out that the number of victims will increase after the incursion led this morning by the Gran Grif gang, based in the town of Savien (Petite Riviere, Artibonite), and that has forced the population of the affected area to flee en masse and take refuge in the public square of the city of Saint-Marc.
The injured are receiving treatment in health centers, especially at the Saint Nicolas de Saint-Marc hospital, a town located a hundred kilometers from Port-au-Prince.
Since this morning, the armed group controls the Pont Sonde area, in the Haitian department of Artibonite.
Violence is on the rise in Haiti
Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security announced that the corresponding instructions have been given to the National Police of Haiti in order to “re-establish order and knock out all those who sow terror in the department of Artibonite.”
“These crimes will not go unpunished. The perpetrators and their accomplices will be persecuted to the last trench,” according to a statement from that ministry, which reiterates its determination to take “all the necessary measures to restore peace to the country and so that the population can freely dedicate themselves to their activities.”
This attack comes a few days after the sanctions announced by the United States and the UN against the leader of the Great Griffin, known as Luckson Elan.
Haiti suffers from extreme violence from armed gangs, which has led thousands of people to leave their homes to escape insecurity.
More than 700,000 internal refugees
According to the latest report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 700,000 people – more than half of them children – are currently internally displaced in Haiti.
The latest figures show a 22% increase in the number of internally displaced people since June, with a consequent worsening of the humanitarian situation.
In the last seven months, gang violence has forced more than 110,000 people to leave their homes, especially in Gressier, west of the capital.
The majority of the displaced in Haiti, about 75%, are currently refugees in the country’s provinces, and the Greater South region alone welcomes 45% of all these people.
In a recent report, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) indicated that at least 1,379 people were victims of armed gang violence in Haiti, between deaths and injuries, during the second quarter of 2024, bringing the number of victims to almost 3,900 in the first half of the year.
International
María Corina Machado kidnapped and forced to record videos before being released, says opposition
The Venezuela Command, the campaign team of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, denounced the “kidnapping” and subsequent release of political leader María Corina Machado after she led a protest in Caracas on the eve of the Venezuelan presidential inauguration.
In a post on X, the opposition team stated that the former lawmaker was “intercepted and knocked off the motorcycle she was traveling on” after leading a rally in the Chacao area of the Venezuelan capital.
“Gunshots were fired during the incident. She was forcibly detained. During her kidnapping, she was forced to record several videos, and then she was released,” the statement added, which was made public nearly two hours after Machado’s party, Vente Venezuela, reported that she had been “violently intercepted.”
International
Governor Jenniffer González expresses solidarity with Venezuela’s struggling opposition
Puerto Rico’s Governor Jenniffer González expressed her sorrow over Venezuela’s political crisis on Thursday and voiced her support for Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, just one day before President Nicolás Maduro is set to take office following the controversial July elections.
“I think it is sad that the Venezuelan people have to suffer the consequences of a dictator who came to power by deceiving the people. I recognize Edmundo González for his leadership,” the governor stated during a press conference, coinciding with a day of protests by Venezuela’s opposition.
“The Venezuelan community has my full support, and, as we have done in the past, we will maintain that line of communication with whatever we can collaborate on,” assured the Puerto Rican head of government.
González Urrutia is currently in the Dominican Republic, the last announced stop on his American tour, where he was accompanied by Dominican President Luis Abinader and former Latin American presidents from the Spain and Americas Democratic Initiative (Grupo Idea).
International
Hundreds of venezuelan protesters demand ‘democratic change’ in Rome
Dozens of Venezuelans demonstrated in central Rome on Thursday to show their support for opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia and demand a “democratic change,” on the eve of the presidential inauguration that has deeply divided the country.
The protest took place in the Roman square of Largo Argentina and gathered several members of the Venezuelan diaspora and refugees, who sang their national anthem and displayed signs with the slogan “Glory to the brave people.”
Around 150 participants were present, according to one of the coordinators of the protest, Celeste Puerta from the ‘Aiuto Venezuela’ Civic Movement, who spoke to EFE.
Similar actions have been organized in other Italian cities, including Bologna, Florence, and Milan in the north.
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