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Haiti’s main port has suspended its activities, due to an increase in violence in recent days that has even called into question the return to the country of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who traveled to Kenya to ratify a security agreement. The company Caribbean Port Services (CPS), a merger of shipping agents and terminal operators that have operated in the Port-au-Prince International Port complex since 1978, has announced that, “by not being able to carry out its operations”, it has been “forced to suspend all services offered to its clients.” “CPS management informs the public in general and its clients in particular that, during the recent disturbances to public order, it has been the victim, since March 1 and again last night, of malicious acts of sabotage and vandalism,” reads a statement. The company, however, has indicated that it continues to work jointly with the security forces to be able to resume its activities as soon as possible, although the Haitian Government has extended the state of emergency for a month in the Western Department, which includes the capital. , Prince Port. In recent weeks, Port-au-Prince has once again been the scene of an increase in violence between gangs vying for control of the capital, after 4,500 prisoners managed to escape from the capital’s main prison. The main criminal leader, Jimmy Chérizier, alias ‘Barbecue’, has this week launched an attack on Prime Minister Henry, whom he has threatened to plunge the country into a “civil war” if he does not resign. In this context, the Secretary of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, has urged Henry to “accelerate the transition to a broader and more inclusive Government.” His conversations have been “intense” and “very deep,” as explained by the Undersecretary of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States Department of State, Brian Nichols, during a conference in Washington. In addition, according to sources consulted by the Haitian news agency Alterpress, an elite anti-terrorist security team from the US Navy has been deployed this week in the Caribbean country.
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