Bahamas evacuates its 7 diplomats in Haiti to the DR

San Juan.- The Bahamas Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this Saturday that its seven diplomats in Haiti, including the wife of the charge d’affaires, were transferred by helicopter from Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic.

The evacuation comes just one day after the Government of the Bahamas ordered the immediate departure, or as soon as security conditions permitted, of all its diplomatic personnel from Haiti, which is immersed in a spiral of violence.

Foreign Affairs expressed today in a statement its “deep gratitude and maximum consideration” to the Dominican president, Luis Abinaderand to the chancellor Roberto Alvarez“for the execution of this process” of evacuation.

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According to the note, the diplomats landed “safely” in the Dominican Republic and will arrive “soon” in the Bahamas. The Foreign Ministry explained yesterday that it is “a temporary measure in light of recent developments that require an evaluation and reorganization of security.”

He also announced that once security conditions in Haiti improve, a diplomatic team will be sent to the country without further announcement.

This decision comes after the head of the Bahamas diplomatic mission in Port-au-Prince reported on Thursday that they had been detained by the Haitian Police and stripped of their vehicle and weapons.

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That day, policemen attacked the private residence of Haiti’s prime minister, ariel henrydue to the indifference of the authorities in the face of the death of more than a dozen agents at the hands of armed groups this month.

The announcement comes a day after the day of great tension experienced on Thursday and caused by a protest movement by the Police against the inaction of the authorities in the face of the continuous deaths of agents. / Archive.

After this attack, the demonstrators moved their protest to the surroundings of the Toussaint Louverture airport in Port-au-Prince, where they erected barricades and burned tires, causing a traffic stoppage.

The Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davisurged last Tuesday at the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to provide aid to Haiti to get out of the crisis, which also threatens neighboring countries due to the waves of migration it generates.

Earlier this week, Bahamian authorities reported that the coast guard intercepted a boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants near the remote Salt Cay, in one of the largest human smuggling incidents in the area in recent memory.