Roadblocks

I watched "The Agronomist" tonight, a documentary by Jonathan Demme about Jean Dominique, a Haitian elite who spent four decades running a semi-independent radio station for the people, and who was assassinated in 2000. It was quite good, and it helped me with some of my Haitian history.

The entrance to Jeremie from the direction of PaP has now had a roadblock for about a week now. Because the government has officially declared no tolerance of the "bandits" (causing a few less-than-trustworthy sources here to call it civil war), there are fears that they will spread into the countryside, and into Jeremie. So far, a few weapons have been found, but it's not clear that the bearers have anything to do with the violence in PaP.