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Title: Anti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti
Category: sad
Blog Entry: Demonstrations that started in Le Cayes against soaring food prices spread across Haiti to Petit-Goagve, Gonaïves, Aquin and to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Anger over rising prices has been building for many months with basic food stuffs increasingly out of reach for the poor. Tires were set ablaze in the streets and thrown together to form barricades that paralyzed traffic for days. Read the entire article by Nazaire and myself here at Upside Down World .