Shaky cellphone footage of military altercations mix with archive footage, TV newscasts and dreamy, languid shots of dusty villages at night lit by naked bulbs. Sometimes current day images melt to those of a generation ago, when in home movies we see Adra’s father protesting the same injustices, a never-ending cycle. His first memory is his father’s first arrest.
“Every employee has a story with the space,” said journalist Dénel Sainton, who described the former headquarters as the “soul” of Radio et Télévision Caraïbes, which has been forced to move twice because of gang violence.Also attacked that week was radio station Mélodie FM and TV station Télé Pluriel.
Haitian journalists Johnny Ferdinand, left, Guerrier Dieuseul, center, and Ronald Desormes, right, work on the morning news broadcast from the studio of Radio TV Caraibe radio station in the Petion-ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)Haitian journalists Johnny Ferdinand, left, Guerrier Dieuseul, center, and Ronald Desormes, right, work on the morning news broadcast from the studio of Radio TV Caraibe radio station in the Petion-ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)“What we’re seeing now, kind of the wholesale targeting of the media, is different,” said Adams, the expert on press freedom issues in Haiti. “In the old days, individual journalists were targeted.”
According to UNESCO, at least 21 journalists were reported killed from 2000 to 2022 in Haiti, with nine killed in 2022, the deadliest year for Haitian journalism in recent history.The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists reported one journalist killed in 2023 and
Investigative journalist Gardy Saint-Louis recently told Télégramme360, an online news site, that he planned to go into hiding. Saint-Louis was quoted as saying that he began receiving anonymous calls in September 2024, and that death threats escalated into an attack in February, when armed men opened fire on his house.
Other journalists have fled Haiti, where attacks and killings are rarely solved.Felipe reaches through the door of a bakery where his parents Walter and Evelyn wait to take home discarded baked goods that the shop didn’t sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Felipe reaches through the door of a bakery where his parents Walter and Evelyn wait to take home discarded baked goods that the shop didn’t sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Follow AP’s Latin America coverage at
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