LatinNews Daily - 16 May 2025

*Haiti’s state-owned power firm l’Électricité d’Haïti (EDH) has said that output at its main hydroelectric plant Péligre, which is near Mirebalais in Haiti’s Centre department, had been reduced to zero since 13 May following break-ins earlier this week. In a statement EDH condemns the “acts of invasion” which have “plunged areas still receiving power supplies from the EDH into complete blackout”. It did not specify who was behind the attacks. Mirebalais was recently the target of a large-scale gang attack. The blackout follows a warning on 12 May by the local oil lobby group Association des Professionnels du Pétrole et de l’Énergie (Appe) of an “imminent risk of complete sector paralysis” due to insecurity. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, excerpts of which were circulated in the local media, Appe urged the State to intervene “immediately to re-establish minimal security conditions necessary to maintain the logistical chain for the oil sector”. The media cites Appe as warning that the situation has reached a critical point, where criminality is now threatening the country’s essential economic activities, with gangs controlling key roads, in particular those surrounding the capital, Port-au-Prince, preventing the free movement of people, goods and oil products. This is the latest sign of the multifaceted crisis in Haiti following the unprecedented gang attacks on critical institutions in late February 2024 that ultimately toppled former prime minister Ariel Henry (2021-2024).

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