Fuel available again after two months

Whoops of excitement echoed through the streets of Portau-Prince early Saturday as gas stations opened across Haiti for the first time in two months after a powerful gang lifted a crippling fuel blockade. “There’s gas now! There’s gas now!,” people yelled.

Ever since a gang federation known as G9 seized control of a key fuel terminal in midSeptember, life in Haiti became paralyzed. Earlier this week, nearly 400 trucks lined up at the newly freed Varreux terminal in Port-au-Prince, filling up their tanks with fuel as a heavily armed police convoy escorted them to gas stations in the capital and beyond.