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Hundreds of people protest this Monday in Haiti against the announcement made Friday by the government, which warned against the entry into force of 39, a rise in the price of fuels, as part of the package neoliberal measures which signed Port-au-Prince with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) .
Although on Saturday evening the country's president, Jovenel Moise, He recalled that the increase would not take place, the protests continue and the carriers' unions called a general strike for this Monday and Tuesday, according to local sources.
"You sent me the message and I corrected what needed to be corrected," said the president, while calling on the population to "stay calm and go home." However, thousands of Haitians remain in the streets of the country's main cities to express their disagreement with the national situation.
>> Möise calls for calm after halting the fuel increase in Haiti
The decision to increase the price of gas by 49%; 40% diesel and over 50% kerosene (used by most Haitians to light their homes because they do not have electricity) as part of the agreement with the IMF brought accordingly the enhardecimiento of the population, because these actions require the impoverished nation to carry out austerity measures in order to increase the collection of the government.
>> Haiti suspends rising fuel prices after protests
The Haitian government explains that fuel and electricity are a burden for the state, which allocates some 14 billion gourdes a year (210 million 302 thousand 720 dollars) to pay for energy and 17 billion (255 million 367 thousand 589 dollars) for oil derivative products.
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