Things Break
Apr. 12th, 2008 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bcholmesSixteen of 17 senators at a special session voted against Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, an ally President Rene Preval placed at the head of a coalition cabinet in June 2006 that was meant to unite the fractious Caribbean nation.
The move by opposition senators was seen as a serious but not crushing blow to Preval, whose 2006 election brought a measure of calm to the poorest country in the Americas as it searched for political stability after decades of dictatorship, military rule and economic mayhem.
— Reuters
A United Nations soldier was killed Saturday in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the site of recent deadly riots over rising food prices.
Mission spokeswoman Sophie Boutaud de la Combe says the soldier was shot in the afternoon, but that UN troops did not exchange fire. She had no further details.
Protesters clashed with UN soldiers this week and have blamed the government for a failure to create jobs and control soaring food prices. Five people have been killed in the clashes.
The shooting comes the same day Haiti's senate ousted Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis over the handling of the crisis.
Sometimes the news breaks my heart.