00:00Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti Transitional Presidential Council, has denied supporting
00:06gangs on Tuesday after the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on him.
00:11The U.S. did not name the person it sanctioned in Monday's announcement, but Jean confirmed
00:16it was him as he rejected the accusations of supporting gangs.
00:21For some months now, several members of the council have observed the failure of Prime
00:26Minister Didier Fizeme's government on the issues of security, governance and elections.
00:34The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, last week warned on social media that
00:38there were calls for open war against the central government in Haiti.
00:44Threats are coming from the American Embassy, which is coming from the Canadian Embassy,
00:51where they said if we don't withdraw our support for replacing the Prime Minister, they will
00:55cut off our visas and the visas of our families.
01:05Haiti is due to hold elections by February 7, when the nine-member Transitional Presidential
01:11Council is supposed to step down.
01:13Haiti's Prime Minister in the Transitional Presidential Council have been under pressure to hold elections
01:18before the council's mandate expires, but gang violence has made the February deadline impossible
01:24to meet, according to analysts.
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