Waiting for change, Haitians endure hell on Earth
Voice of America
People take cover from gunfire during clashes between police and gangs in the Champs de Mars area next to the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 8, 2024.
Jameson Jacques has been living in a makeshift shelter in Haiti's capital with his three children since gang members torched his house, killing his parents.
A Cuban rides a bike on a street at night during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure in Havana on December 4, 2024.
FILE - Members of the Haiti Transitional Council pose for a group photo during an installation ceremony, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024.
FILE - Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum, left, meets with the Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 18, 2024. (Mexico Presidency/Handout via Reuters)
FILE - A worker in a protective suit pokes a metal rod to tap slag from a smelting furnace at PT Vale Indonesia's nickel processing plant in Sorowako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sept. 12, 2023.
FILE - Anti-government demonstrators march against President Daniel Ortega and for the release of all political prisoners, in Leon, Nicaragua, July 28, 2018. FILE - Exiled Pedro Gutierrez, who was released from a Nicaraguan jail and rendered "stateless" waits for the start of a religious service, in Guatemala City, Sept. 22, 2024. FILE - Exiled Nicaraguans released from a Nicaraguan jail wave from a bus after arriving at the airport in Guatemala City, Sept. 5, 2024.