"I corrected what needed to be corrected"

The Director General of the Haitian Police, Michelangelo Gedeon, said Sunday in a statement that he had ordered members of the institution to take all measures against "bandits who disturb the peace and country security, "after violent protests against a fuel price increase, which was canceled.

The bodies of four people were found Sunday morning in the streets of the populated area of ​​Delmas. The police had not determined whether they had died as a result of the protests.

Spirit Airlines, one of three US airlines that suspended their flights to Haiti because of unrest. He announced that he would not fly to the Caribbean nation on Sunday either. We do not know if American Airlines or Jet Blue will do it too.

Saturday, Haitian President Jovenel Moise urged protesters to "return home" after the suspension of fuel price increases that caused the

In a speech broadcast on state television, Moise stated that he had "corrected what needed to be corrected" after a change of opinion on the price increases announced earlier in the day

. As soon as they speak, I listen to them, because they started sending me this message last night, I received it and I corrected what was to be corrected, "says Moise

" To those who watch me tonight, I ask everyone: go home, "he said, adding that the authorities had received the" back home, "he said. order to clear the streets.

Port-au-Prince and its environs have been paralyzed since Friday afternoon, with major roads blocked by steel barricades, flames, and some demonstrators have even called for a revolution in the impoverished country.

Just before the announcement of the suspension, the head of the lower house of the Haitian parliament had threatened to seize the government if the fuel price rises were not reversed. [19659005] Increases were announced Friday when many Haitians were absorbed in a Cup football match

"If there is no response in two hours, Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant then announced on Twitter the suspension of the price increases and wrote that Gary Bodeau, president of the Chamber of Deputies, would take over. that "violence and democracy are fundamentally incompatible."

Even before the controversy over the price of fuel, MPs had already begun a debate on their future, and Saturday's U-turn could lead to the fall of the government.

Friday night, the bodyguard of an opposition politician died in an altercation with protesters in the center of Port-au-Prince while he was trying to cross a barricade . . His body was burned later on the road.

An AFP reporter saw on Saturday a young man shot from a shot.

A supermarket and other businesses were looted and vehicles burned, mainly in the rich areas Similar furious protests erupted in Cap-Haïtien, the second largest city, as well as in the communes of Les Cayes, Jacmel and Petit-Goave

Internet service has struggled, although it is not clear "We are seeing a little more calm right now," said an American, Stacy Librandi Bourne, to CNN of Port-au-Prince, where, according to the news network, she was one of 50 tourists. Americans, children and missionaries who could not leave the country. Oasis Hotel because of the riots.

– "Do not Destroy" –

The problems were caused by a government announcement that gasoline prices would rise by 38 percent, diesel by 47 percent and of kerosene by 51 percent this weekend.

The protests prompted several major airlines, including American, Air France, Delta, Blue Jet and Copa, to cancel flights to Puerto Prince, at least until noon Saturday

"I ask your patience because our administration has a vision, a clear program, "said Lafontant, a physician by profession and a novice in politics, a few hours before the suspension.

"Do not destroy, because every time it is Haiti that is impoverished."

Haiti is still recovering from Hurricane Matthew, which took place in 2016. Nearly 40,000 people remain in makeshift camps after an earthquake of more than 200,000 pe Six years ago, thousands of people died of a cholera outbreak that lasted a year.

– Controversial Grants

The Director of the National Police also urged for calm.

"We understand your right to protest," said Michelangelo Gedeon. "But we do not understand violence."

At least two police stations and several police vehicles were set on fire

A framework agreement signed in February between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Haiti implicated the creation of a new regime. Completion of subsidies for products but subsidies also help make fuel affordable in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where most people live in extreme poverty, unemployment and unemployment . It is widespread and the inflation rate has exceeded 13 percent over the last three years.

Discussing in support of rising fuel prices early in the day, Lafontant said that between 2010 and 2018, the government's fuel subsidies had cost a billion dollars. This amount, he said, "could have allowed us to build several miles (miles) of road … many clbadrooms … many health clinics."