U.S. starts to reporters at the airport in Port au Prince
U.S. starts to reporters at the airport in Port au Prince
MADRID, 21 (Reuters)
The U.S. military has ordered foreign journalists to vacate the airport in Port-au-Prince without explanation "of any kind", according to media themselves affected.
"American soldiers have decided to expel journalists from the airport in Port-au-Prince where we had installed dozens of reports without any explanation whatsoever," the Special Envoy of Spanish Radio Television , Fran Sevilla, the agency's website. "There are enormous problems of accommodation in Port au Prince where the few hotels that work and precariousness of means are overcrowded," he said.
"Last evening the soldiers told us that in three hours we had to leave the camp of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation and Development (AECI). The deadline was later extended until eight o'clock Thursday morning," he added. According to Sevilla, "the management of the facility by the U.S. military has raised controversy after the French charity Doctors Without Borders condemns  that several of its aircrafts had been  prevented from landing.
For its part, the special envoy of Punto Radio, Miguel Ondarreta, reported on the website of ABC that he had received, "along with many other reports from around the world, the order of U.S. Marines to leave the facilities of the airport in Port-au-Prince, which the journalists had  taken as a base for their work.
As reported by Ondarreta live on the show 'Coast to Coast', Punto Radio, the U.S. military have given "two hours to leave the place." "They've got three members of the U.S. Navy, who, with little protocol, we have been asked to leave the airport in two hours and they have said that from 8 o'clock onwards there can not be any journalists, not only Spanish, and that from now the control is tight, "he added.
The Mexican news agency Notimex said the U.S. army has taken control of the city's airport and has extreme security measures, including "the eviction of the media and advocacy groups who are camped in this air terminal. Similarly, the agency said, they have  ordered members of the Organization of the United Nations to avoid "going to the streets of Port au Prince".
According to Mexican newspaper "La Crónica de Hoy", "elements of U.S. Army" last night ordered them  foreign journalists to "leave the Haitian capital's airport before 20:00 local time (two o'clock in Spain ), "reported communicators installed in the camp of Port-au-Prince airfield, where they have their basic international aid agencies that came to the Haitian capital after the earthquake last Tuesday.
"Without explaining the reasons, the military told them that this is a provision that affects the entire international press", said the paper. "Journalists reporting the incident settled here and expect that in the next few hours some governments that rely on the rescue and humanitarian aid address this issue with Haitian Prime Minister, Jean Max Bellerive, and with the U.S. ambassador in Haiti Ken Merten, "he added
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