The ongoing violent protests that have plunged a crisis-wrecked Haiti into a deeper state of chaos and lawlessness are being “financed by economic actors who stand to lose money,” a top aide in the Biden administration on Latin America and the Caribbean said Monday.
Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere and a special assistant to President Joe Biden, said there are individuals in the Caribbean country opposed to the reduction in $400 million in fuel subsidies. The reductions were announced as part of an announced Haitian government hike in the price of gas, diesel and propane at the pump.
“These are people that often don’t even live in Haiti, who have mansions in different parts of the world, and are paying for people to go into the streets,” Gonzalez said.
