On streets and avenues across the capital, drivers blared car horns and cranked up anti-government songs while people marching in the streets chanted and screamed.
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Justin Spike,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
Neighbors and other observers in the area blew whistles, honked horns and yelled outrage, with some recording the detention from a distance, but the agents — wearing military-style fatigues and equipment — got the 57-year-old into a vehicle and drove away.
The site was especially crowded as hundreds of individuals gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the early 19th-century mountaintop fortress that symbolizes sovereignty and resistance against French colonialism.
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Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
12 Apr. 2026
Haitians officials on Sunday revised the death toll from a stampede inside the country’s historic Citadelle Laferrière mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti to 25 from an initial estimate of 30.
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