The United Nations temporarily suspended the delivery of humanitarian aid in Haiti because of the impossibility of access to the port and airport in the capital due to the serious deterioration of the security situation. teleSUR
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00:00The United Nations temporarily suspended the delivery of humanitarian aid in Haiti due to
00:04the deteriorating security situation in the country. Humanitarian flights had to be suspended
00:09after the Haitian government decreed the closure of the Toussaint Louverture Airport. The decision
00:13came after criminal groups opened fire at an aircraft. The plane, with 48 people on board,
00:18had to be rerouted to the Dominican city of Santiago and subsequently JetBlue reported
00:24another attack against one of its aircraft. As a result, the UN had to delay the movement
00:29of 20 truckloads of critical medicines and supplies and is now contemplating
00:32moving its air operations to an airport in the north of the country.