Hungry Haitians attack UN base in food-shortage protests

Demonstrators angry over Haiti’s rising cost of living attacked a United Nations peacekeeping base and looted food shops in the south.

About 5,000 people demonstrated in the southern peninsula city of Les Cayes, where protesters chanting slogans against President Rene Preval attempted to set the UN police base on fire and stole rice from trucks as Haitian police stood by helplessly.