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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 25 april 2017

Venezuelans shut down roads and highways in protest

FABIOLA SANCHEZ bathtub into the road.
HANNAH DREIER The protest movement is
Associated Press entering its fourth week,
CARACAS, Venezuela and has become increas-
(AP) — Protesters sprawled ingly deadly. On Sunday,
in lawn chairs, worked a 21st death was linked to
on math homework and the unrest that began al-
played cards on main most a month ago over the
roads around Venezuela Supreme Court’s decision
Monday as part of a sit-in to gut the opposition-con-
against the government. trolled congress of its pow-
In Caracas, thousands of ers. The Interior Ministry said
protesters shut down the that Almelina Carrillo died
capital city’s main high- in a hospital after being hit
way to express their disgust on the head by a frozen
with the increasingly em- water bottle that some-
battled socialist adminis- one threw from a high rise
tration of President Nicolas toward a pro-government
Maduro. They turned the rally last week.
road into a kind of public The current unrest is the
plaza, with protesters lay- most intense the economi-
ing out picnics, reading cally struggling country has
books and reclining under seen since two months of
umbrellas they brought Anti-government protesters block a highway in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 24, 2017. Op- anti-government protests
to protect them from the ponents to President Nicolas Maduro shut down main roads around the country as the protest in 2014 that left dozens
blazing Caribbean sun. movement against his administration is entering its fourth week. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) dead. q
Juan Carlos Bautista, 48, Protesters in least a dozen
passed the afternoon play- other cities also staged
ing dominos. sit-ins Monday, with some
“We want to be free. I’m building barricades to stop
here fighting for my chil- traffic. In Caracas, pro-
dren and my children’s testers dragged concrete
children,” he said.
slabs, garbage and even a
Haiti PM’s motorcade hits 2,

killing 1, near flooded zone

EVENS SANON on the road, sparking a tire-
Associated Press burning protest by furious
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) locals in the southwest city
— A motorcade carrying of Les Cayes.
Haiti’s prime minister struck Les Cayes police spokes-
two teenage boys, kill- woman Guerline Diman-
ing one, as officials drove che said officers rushed the
into the country’s third boys to a public hospital,
largest city on Monday to where one was declared
see flood damage left by dead on arrival.
heavy rains. Mayor Jean Gabriel For-
Serge Daniel, a govern- tune said Lafontant, a phy-
ment delegate who was sician who was approved
traveling in Prime Minis- last month as Haiti’s No. 2
ter Jack Guy Lafontant’s official, agreed to put the
motorcade, said one of survivor on a government
the vehicles accidentally helicopter for treatment
struck two adolescents in the capital of Port-au-
who darted into the road Prince.
on a motorbike. It was not clear if the mo-
The motorcade continued torcade was speeding or
to its destination as the if the boys were driving
badly injured teenagers lay recklessly.q