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Haiti Opposition leader says: The people who barricade the streets have children too NOT going to school

February 19, 2019 5:21 AM

In regards to the opposition putting Haiti on LOCK and the school children unable to go to school, a journalist complained to one the movement leaders, Andre Michel, saying: "Parents want their children to go back to school. Talk to them!" His response is shocking...

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"The people who put up the barricades have children too," Andre Michel replied.

"No one has a machine gun in hand in front of the schools telling children not to go to school. It is the people who have decided to put an end to this system."

Meanwhile, the word in the streets is that most of these opposition leaders preventing children to go to school in Haiti have their children attending school in the United States.

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David Grant says...

Ce guellier de l'opposition ne comprend meme pas ce qu.il dit. Pourquoi baille t-il pas a l'ecole pour s'éduquer des affairs sociologiques.

La politique n.est pas pour lui et j'espère que le peuple Haïtien lui met a sa place.

allez vous en

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Eric Doerrer says...

We would like to also see an accounting of the Western Union transfer tax which is supposed to be sending more children to school who can not afford it. Haiti needs an informed

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