HAITI HELL: Heavy Gun Battles Rage Near National Palace – Unelected Transition Council Stumbles on Legal Impediments – Canada Training Caribbean Troops for Deployment
Another week in Haiti, another ugly chapter in the never-ending chaos and violence in the Caribbean nation.
As the unelected Transition Council tries to get implemented but doesn’t manage to, street battles raged in around downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday (1).
The heaviest confrontations seemed to take place near the national palace.
Reuters reported:
“The latest violence to rock the Caribbean island nation comes as the outgoing prime minister signaled that a broad transitional council is nearly finalized and seen as key to ending the current social and political crisis and paving the way for new elections.
Reuters saw civilians rush to escape gunfire in the capital, where rival gangs control wide swathes of territory,
