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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

May. 03, 2024 09:14 AM EDT

April 16 - May 2, 2024 Brazilian singer Catia de Franca performs her blend of psychedelic rock with traditional rhythms and modernist poetry. Mothers search a field on the outskirts of Mexico City looking for remains of missing love ones. Gangs in Haiti lay siege to several...

AP Week in Pictures: Global

May. 03, 2024 01:07 AM EDT

April 26 - May 2, 2024 Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread to multiple U.S. campuses. In Haiti, a new prime minister was named and people are demanding that...

Gangs in Haiti launch fresh attacks, days after a new prime minister is announced

May. 02, 2024 20:37 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs in Haiti laid siege to several neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours as hundreds fled the violence early Thursday in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced. ...

The unexpected announcement of a prime minister divides Haiti's newly created transitional council

May. 01, 2024 15:39 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country. Four of seven council members with voting...

Haiti's transitional council names a new prime minister in the hopes of quelling stifling violence

Apr. 30, 2024 23:56 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose a little known former sports minister as the Caribbean country’s prime minister Tuesday as part of its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence. Fritz...

Haiti's transitional council names ex-Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as country's new prime minister

Apr. 30, 2024 12:08 PM EDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's transitional council names ex-Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as country's new prime minister.

New leaders take on Haiti's chaos as those living in fear demand swift solutions to gang violence

Apr. 26, 2024 15:05 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation's new leaders is rapidly growing. Haitians want security, food, jobs — and they want them now. The members of...

Meet the members of a transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for beleaguered Haiti

Apr. 25, 2024 19:47 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with bringing political stability to Haiti was installed Thursday in the capital of this Caribbean country, which is marred by gang violence and soaring hunger and poverty. The freshly sworn-in council will appoint a new...

With fear and hope, Haiti warily welcomes new governing council as gang-ravaged country seeks peace

Apr. 25, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti opened a new political chapter Thursday with the installation of a transitional council tasked to pick a new prime minister and prepare for eventual presidential elections, in hopes of quelling spiraling gang violence that has killed thousands in the Caribbean...

A transitional council is installed in Haiti, and an interim prime minister is appointed for the embattled country

Apr. 25, 2024 10:51 AM EDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council is installed in Haiti, and an interim prime minister is appointed for the embattled country.