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00:00 Some surrounded by their luggage and others with small children.
00:05 Thousands of travellers were left stranded in the parking lot of Haiti's main international
00:09 airport.
00:11 It comes after Haiti's government suspended all Nicaragua-bound flights, according to
00:15 a bulletin issued Monday.
00:18 A move which puts a block on a major route for Haitians fleeing poverty and violence
00:22 in their quest to reach the US.
00:27 We cannot work, we cannot go to school, we want to find a safe space to live and the
00:31 state cannot give it to us.
00:32 So we've chosen another place.
00:34 The Prime Minister is preventing us from finding it.
00:37 I sold my land, everything I own, for 3 to 4 thousand US dollars when Ariel made this
00:42 decision without warning us.
00:44 What about all our expenses?
00:45 How is he going to help us?
00:48 The Haitian government did not provide an explanation for the decision in its bulletin.
00:53 According to the Miami Herald, the Port-au-Prince to Managua flights, which began in August,
00:59 have been taken by more than 31,000 Haitians.
01:03 Nicaragua was a popular destination for Haitian migrants beginning their journey to the US-Mexico
01:08 border after it suspended visa requirements for Haitians.
01:12 The Nicaraguan leader, Daniel Ortega, has since been accused of deliberately using his
01:17 country as a pass-through for migrants in order to push the US to lift sanctions against
01:22 his government.
01:25 The move to end flights comes as the crisis in Haiti worsens.
01:29 The country is the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, with violent gangs now estimated
01:33 to control up to 80% of the capital.
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