内容摘要：“We are going to take all of the good practices” back to Costa Rica “to give Costa Ricans a place of peace and tranquility,” he said.

“We are going to take all of the good practices” back to Costa Rica “to give Costa Ricans a place of peace and tranquility,” he said.

Journalists take cover from the exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)Journalists take cover from the exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Having lost all his work equipment, Asperges relies solely on his phone, but he remains undeterred like dozens of other journalists in Haiti who are under attack like never before. They are dodging bullets, defying censorship and setting personal struggles aside as they document the downfall of Haiti’s capital andthat control 85% of Port-au-Prince.Heavily armed gangs attacked at least three TV and radio stations in March. Two of the buildings were already abandoned because of previous violence, but gunmen stole equipment that had been left behind.

“It’s a message: You don’t operate without our permission, and you don’t operate at all in our turf,” said David C. Adams, an expert on press freedom issues in Haiti.Gangs sent an even deadlier message on Christmas Eve, when

covering the failed reopening of Haiti’s largest public hospital, saying they had not authorized its reopening.

A wounded journalist talks on the phone after being shot by gangs at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean Feguens Regala, File)Dennis Dostey Dorve, a driver and a part-time fisherman, stands on a fallen tree next to his late father’s room, collapsed by the sea in the family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

The sea began to claim houses in Agavedzi about a dozen years ago, said Dennis Dostey Dorve, whose fisherman father built a home that collapsed in 2016 while Dorve was inside.“The room he had given me is gone, as is the room he occupied before he passed away,” said Dorve. “When I was young, the distance from where I stand now to the shore was considerable.”

Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)