Thousands of protesters across Haiti have demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
The protest started hours before the United Nations Security Council held a split vote on Monday over sending an international force to Haiti to help with deteriorating security and a surge in cholera after powerful gangs took over the main port and blocked fuel deliveries.
The government had been awaiting a response to Henry’s recent request for the international community to help set up a “specialized armed force” to quell the violence, which has worsened in the power vacuum created by the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
During Monday’s protest, demonstrators hailed Jean-Jacques Dessalines—a slave who became the leader of the world's first Black republic—as they rejected the potential deployment of foreign troops.
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