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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evens Sanon

Surging oil prices spark protest in Haiti as workers demand salary increases

Haiti Worker Protest - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All right reserved)

More than 1,000 workers organized a protest Monday in Haiti’s capital to demand a higher minimum wage as the conflict in Iran deepens, driving up oil prices.

Workers at the state-owned Metropolitan Industrial Park, informally known as Sonapi, gathered outside its gates in Port-au-Prince and shouted, “When we are hungry, we don’t mess around!”

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