Yesterday people started protesting the recent spike in prices in Haiti.
It's hard to tell what is really happening, but I'll tell you what seems most likely factual.
Protests started at the Palace this morning. At about 10:30 am our time, people stormed the gates of the Palace. People are protesting against stores mainly. As if the shop owners were the cause of the high prices. People are throwing rocks into the windows of stores and looting them. Then people started marching up Delmas, the main route in Port-au-Prince. Protesters have "taken over" Place ST. Pierre, a main plaza in the middle of a busy commercial area. Some roads have been closed.
The children and I are at school and it seems to be safe. However, right outside the school compound people were marching and throwing rocks into store fronts and looting.
Our Cybercafe and ministry office is right across the street from the school. Fortunately it is upstairs, so as of right now it has not been hit. The drugstore below it was. The people workiing in the Cybercafe locked the doors and stayed inside when they heard what was happening.
Here at school at QCS, parents started coming to pick up their children at about 11:00. By 12:15 we only had about 1/3 of our students left.
Please pray. For those who don't have enough to eat, for store owners who are caught in the middle of this. For the whole situation. Richard is still in the States and will be back Friday.
I always kid him that everything falls apart when he leaves (car, generator,etc.) Now it's the whole country. Well, sometimes you gotta laugh.
Praise God, the neighborhood we live in seems to be away from all this. I think I should have no problems going that direction to go home, but will ask others here if they feel it's OK. We can always stay at school, what fun!
Carol
Here's something that was posted 2 hours ago:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5geZrL5OB_kHM3gx_HW4bPRSgT3YwD8VTPSLG0
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