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“Haitians criticize high airline ticket prices to connect with US while Ecuador’s opposition remains in control”

An economy class ticket to connect Port-au-Prince and a major American city like Washington now costs between 3 700€ and more than 4 000€, and it takes almost 1 500€to get to Miami. In some cases, the prices are multiplied by ten. “It is as if Haiti should not benefit from this program of the humanitarian plan put in place by the Biden administration., laments human rights defender Gelda Thermitus, at the microphone of our correspondent Ronel Paul. Some even see it as a strategy on the part of the United States : “Biden is opening a floodgate which provokes reactions in the United States, even in the camp of the democrats, but morally he cannot return there, analyzes Pierre Robert Auguste, the president of the association of entrepreneurs of Artibonite, maybe they are looking for a way to limit the wave to prevent the pre-election atmosphere from being disturbed by this question? »

The Assembly remains under the control of the opposition in Ecuador

After the election to renew some of the leaders of the legislative power, Parliament remains in the hands of the center-left coalition on the eve of the opening of the impeachment trial of President Guillermo Lasso, suspected of embezzlement of public funds. “When will the president leave? the hour is demanded, it is obvious that the country’s problems have never kept him awake, which is why today the majority of Ecuadorians want him to go. » The newspaper El Comercio considers in any case “that a majority is forming to impeach the president. »

The newspaper of the 1time

After nine hours of debate, the Congress of elected officials of French Guiana adopted the draft “statutory development” of the 9-7-3 department.

2023-05-15 16:16:51


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