Port au Prince goes dark: Residents shut down Haiti’s main power plant to demand security

Port au Prince goes dark: Residents shut down Haiti’s main power plant to demand security

PORT-AU-PRINCE —  Frustrated by the government’s failure to retake Mirebalais from gangs, residents from nearby rural areas shut down Haiti’s main hydroelectric plant last week, demanding security. The closure of the Péligre dam has plunged Port-au-Prince and several regions into darkness, intensifying fears of a nationwide energy collapse amid a looming fuel shortage.“There’s no life here,” one Mirebalais resident, who chose to remain anonymous…