Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered the country’s main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days.
As of midday Wednesday, Henry remained in Puerto Rico, where he landed the day before after he was barred from landing in neighboring Dominican Republic because officials there closed the airspace to flights to and from Haiti.
Locked out of his country for now, Henry appears to face an impasse as a growing number of officials call for his resignation or nudge him toward it.
Here’s what to know about the embattled prime minister and the crisis he faces:
The 74-year-old neurosurgeon who trained and worked in southern France got involved in Haitian politics in the early 2000s, when he became leader of a movement that opposed then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Read More
Coto, D. (2024, March 6). Haiti’s prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign – Caribbean Life. Www.caribbeanlife.com. https://www.caribbeanlife.com/haitis-prime-minister-is-locked-out-of-his-country-and-faces-pressure-to-resign/
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