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WORLD NEWSSaturday 13 January 2018
Haiti ‘shocked and outraged’ over reported Trump remarks
By EVENS SANON tory. President Jovenel Moi- ed States,” it said. Trump was “tough” but insisted he near the general hospital in
se’s government issued a was in a closed meeting did not say anything derog- downtown Port-au-Prince.
Associated Press strongly worded statement with members of Congress atory about Haiti aside from “I will ask Jesus to protect
denouncing what it called to discuss immigration on noting it’s a poor country. Haiti from the devil, and
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti a “racist” view of Haitian Thursday when he report- Haitians at home and Trump is the devil.”
immigrants and people edly questioned why the abroad were stunned, and “Trump will not last in of-
(AP) — Haitians reacted from African countries. U.S. would accept more Internet message boards fice,” Maxon said. “He at-
“The Haitian government people from Haiti and and radio stations were tacked the wrong nation.”
with outrage Friday to re- condemns in the strongest “shithole countries” in Af- flooded with angry and an- The government statement
terms these abhorrent and rica, rather than places like guished comments. also pointed to history, not-
ports that President Donald obnoxious remarks which, if Norway. At first the White “It’s shocking he would say ing that Haitian soldiers
proven, reflect a totally er- House did not deny that it on the anniversary,” said fought on the American
Trump questioned why the roneous and racist view of the remark was made. 28-year-old Natacha Jo- side against the British in
the Haitian community and On Friday the president seph, who was selling rice the Revolutionary War and
U.S. would accept more its contribution to the Unit- tweeted that his language and beans from a basket in the War of 1812.q
immigrants from Haiti and
“shithole countries” in Africa
at an Oval Office meeting
held on the eve of the an-
niversary of the 2010 earth-
quake, one of the deadli-
est disasters in modern his-
3 Chile churches firebombed, president calls for ‘respect’
By EVA VERGARA A church employee surveys the damage caused by an overnight fire bomb attack at the visits to Santiago, Temuco
PETER PRENGAMAN and the northern city of
Associated Press Emmanuel Catholic Church, in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. Iquique. Police will also
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — have helicopters on hand
President Michelle Bachelet (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) and monitor events with
asked Chileans on Friday to drones.
receive Pope Francis in a rights. Francis will celebrate “I also want to invite you all Mahmud Aleuy calling the It was unclear who might
“climate of respect,” hours have been behind Friday’s
after three Roman Catholic Mass and meet with Mapu- to experience this visit in a damage “minor.” attacks.
churches were firebombed A small minority of Mapu-
and a note left at the scene ches in the southern city of climate of respect, solidar- Chilean police did not im- ches have used violence
threatening the pontiff. to further their cause, and
In the overnight attacks in Temuco on Wednesday. ity and happiness,” Bach- mediately respond to que- in recent years churches
Santiago, the capital and have been targeted.
largest city where the pope After a security meeting, elet said. ries about whether new se- Chile also has a handful of
will arrive Monday, the anarchist groups that pe-
churches were hit with fire- Bachelet said the Andean There were no immediate curity measures would be riodically attack property
bombs and then sprayed and clash with police dur-
with accelerant. At one, nation of 17 million was arrests in the firebomb- taken after the attacks. ing protests.
the doors were burned The pamphlet that threat-
before firefighters extin- prepared for the first papal ings, and authorities down- Earlier this week police said ened the pope mentioned
guished the blaze. the Mapuche cause and
“The next bombs will be in visit since Saint John Paull II played their significance 18,000 officers would be called for the liberation of
your cassock,” read pam- “all political prisoners in the
phlets found outside one of came in 1987. with Interior Ministry official deployed during Francis’ world.”
the churches. Francis’ visit to Chile and
A bomb squad was also de- Peru aims to highlight im-
ployed to a fourth church, migration, the suffering of
where a barrel of flamma- indigenous peoples and
ble liquid was believed to protecting the Amazon
be inside. rainforest.
The pamphlets also extolled However sex abuse in the
the cause of the Mapuche Chilean church and politi-
indigenous people, who cal instability in Peru have
are pushing for a return of become central themes as
ancestral lands and other his arrival nears. q
Venezuela: 16 survive migrant boat crash; death toll now 5
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and was discovered in the night on the short but called Koraal Tabak. The tody in Curacao for enter-
SCOTT SMITH morning, police spokes- treacherous route taken by area is known for rough ing illegally, two of them in
Associated Press man Reginald Huggins said. Venezuelans fleeing their seas, but officials say smug- a hospital. Police used pho-
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) He confirmed that at least country’s economic col- glers sometimes use it in tos to identify three of the
— Venezuelan officials said three of the victims had re- lapse in search of jobs and hopes of avoiding patrols victims who were between
Friday they have account- cently been deported from money to send back home. on Curacao’s southern 22 and 24 years old, Mon-
ed for 16 survivors from the the small island. Early Wednesday police coast. In Venezuela, Re- tano said.
deadly shipwreck of a small “Emotionally it hits you be- discovered the first four gional Civil Protection di- “Because of the hunger
motorboat carrying mi- cause you’re a human be- bodies and the wreckage rector Jose Montano said that we live with here, she
grants that broke apart on ing. You have feelings for of the boat on the shore of relatives confirmed that 11 went to find a job,” Aura
the rocks of a Caribbean them,” Huggins said. “On Curacao, 45 miles (70 kilo- of the passengers survived. Chirinos said of her daugh-
island. The death toll rose the other hand, we have meters) from the mainland. Some were in hiding on the ter, who was among the
to five after the body of a laws in the country.” Its remains were found island because they en- dead. “She has two little
man washed ashore on the The boat carrying roughly smashed on rocks near tered illegally, he said. babies, one three months
Dutch Island of Curacao 30 people left Tuesday the entrance of a lagoon Five survivors were in cus- old today.” q
