The prime minister of HaitiAriel Henry, is in San Juan, as sources from the Government of Puerto Rico confirmed to EFE this Tuesday, after several days without knowing his whereabouts.
The last information we had about Henry is that last Saturday he abandoned Kenyawhere he traveled to discuss the sending of the multinational security support mission that Haiti expects.
The spokesperson for the Fortaleza, the headquarters of the Puerto Rican Executive, Sheila Angleró, explained that Henry landed this Tuesday at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, but did not give more details about the reasons for his arrival on the island.
According to the Dominican television network CDN, which cites a source “full credit”, Henry would have left Teterboro Airport in New Jersey (USA) bound for the Dominican Republic, but after the plane was circling he would not have been allowed to enter the airspace or land at any airport. from the country.
Precisely, the Dominican Minister of Defense, Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, said this Tuesday that the soldiers deployed on the border with Haiti “they are ready” to prevent or deter any incident in that area due to the serious crisis and escalation of tension in the neighboring country.
Furthermore, on Monday, the Dominican president, Luis Abinader, stated that his country is on “alert” due to the deterioration of the crisis in Haiti and warned of a “drastic” response to criminals from that country who try to cross the border.
On the other hand, despite reports that he was stranded on American soil, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said today in his daily press conference that he did not know where Henry was and ruled out that he would go to meet with the Secretary General of United Nations, António Guterres, in New York.
The UN Security Council has scheduled an extraordinary closed-door session for Wednesday to discuss the case of Haiti, where violence in recent days has caused the displacement of 15,000 people.
The escalation of violence began on Thursday in the absence of the prime minister, who traveled first on February 25 to Guyana to participate in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) summit and then to Kenya, to discuss the aforementioned deployment of force. multinational.
The Government of Haiti decreed on Sunday a state of emergency and a 72-hour curfew in the western department, where the capital Port-au-Prince is located, after the takeover of the Caribbean country’s main penitentiary by criminal gangs, which led to the escape of more than 3,000 prisoners.
The armed gangs demand the departure from power of Henry, who pledged during the Caricom summit in Guyana to hold elections before August 31, 2025.
Source: Gestion
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