{"id":4366,"date":"2015-01-11T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T12:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2015-01-11T07:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T12:36:52","slug":"haiti-protesters-urge-presidents-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4366","title":{"rendered":"Haiti protesters urge president&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr id=\"trHeadline\">\n<td class=\"articleTitle\" valign=\"top\">\n<h3 id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/americas\/2015\/01\/haiti-protesters-urge-president-departure-201511102314923761.html\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti protesters urge president&#8217;s departure<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"ctl00_cphBody_dvArticleInfoBlock\">\n<h4 id=\"ctl00_cphBody_dvSummary\" class=\"articleSumm\">Anti-government protesters burn tyres and hurl items at police in clashes amid stalemate over long-delayed elections.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Protesters have burned tyres and thrown rocks and glass bottles at riot police during another anti-government demonstration in Haiti&#8217;s capital amid a political stalemate over long-delayed elections.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration of mostly young men reached a peak of about 1,500 in downtown Port-au-Prince as protesters called for the departure of President Michel Martelly.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired tear gas and sprayed water from an armoured vehicle, scattering the crowd at a plaza close to where the National Palace stood before it collapsed in Haiti&#8217;s 2010 earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no let-up in protests since last month&#8217;s resignation of Martelly&#8217;s prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, and other concessions aimed at resolving the stalemate holding up legislative elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiti protesters urge president&#8217;s departure Anti-government protesters burn tyres and hurl items at police in clashes amid stalemate over long-delayed elections. Protesters have burned tyres and thrown rocks and glass bottles at riot police during another anti-government demonstration in Haiti&#8217;s capital amid a political stalemate over long-delayed elections. The demonstration of mostly young men reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[253,2573,2574,2576,632,2575,657],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-elections","tag-haiti","tag-michel-martelly","tag-national-palace","tag-police","tag-port-au-prince","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}