01/10/2012 12:06
Haiti protests against President Michel Martelly’s government
Several thousand people took the streets of Haiti's capital to protest the government of President Michel Martelly, complaining he was not raising their dismal living standards, the AFP reports.
The protesters, supporters of two-time president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, expressed anger at the high cost of living and rising food prices under Martelly.
"Martelly must go. He isn't doing anything to improve our living standards," groups of youths from the poorest neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince said as they brandished a red placard.
The protest march scattered just steps outside the presidential palace -- left in ruins after a devastating 2010 earthquake that leveled the capital -- as demonstrators faced barricades set up by Haitian police and UN peacekeepers, says the AFP.