riots over rising prices in Haiti
_POSTED_BY desik   
Saturday, 05 April 2008

Anger over rising living costs spilled over into violence in the southwestern Haitian town of Les Cayes, as demonstrators took to the streets burning shops, shooting at peacekeepers and looting containers in a U.N. compound, the United Nations reported  Friday.

 

Les Cayes was still tense after the riots on Thursday and the U.N. sent 100 peacekeepers as reinforcements.

  

Food prices in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, have soared in recent months, fuelling  anger and resentment against the government of President Rene Preval.

 

Preval's election in 2006 raised expectations that Haiti would finally start on the path to stability after decades of turbulence, culminating in the February 2004 ouster of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

 

Rising food and fuel prices are creating tension and instability around the world 

 

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