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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jan 19, 2015
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• Category : General News
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  BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, JCHARLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM
  01/08/2015 5:55 PM | Updated: 01/08/2015 6:50 PM

  Photo: Young men run from tear gas during an anti-government protest in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Saturday Dec. 13, 2014. As Haiti approaches the fifth anniversary of its devastating Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, growing discontent among Haiti’s poor, black masses is fueling increasing demonstrations and calls for Pesident Michel Martelly to step down. PATRICK FARRELL MIAMI HERALD STAFF

• Location : Haiti

Overview

• The United States is calling on Haiti’s politicians to make the necessary compromises to avoid one-man rule by President Michel Martelly on Monday, and the country slipping deeper into political chaos.

  “We want to see elections happen, agreement on elections, and we also want to avoid rule by decree,” said the State Department’s Haiti Special Coordinator Thomas Adams. “We think its better if all three branches of government are existing and functioning.

  “We think there is a fair chance that they can reach that kind of agreement by Monday,” he added. “We’re certainly urging them on.”

  On Thursday, opposition groups demanding Martelly’s resignation took to the streets of the capital, accusing him of corruption and delaying elections. The president has denied the accusations, accusing six senators of holding the country hostage by refusing to vote an electoral law that is needed for elections to be held.

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