PORT-AU-PRINCE (Miami Herald) - Popular discontent continued across Haiti Thursday as more foreign embassies closed their doors and protesters targeted businesses and charity warehouses, the government-owned television station and the home of a former senator in the hills above Port-au-Prince.


In the city of Gonaives, just north of the capital, a food warehouse for the Catholic charity Caritas was ransacked, a Haitian police source confirmed to the Miami Herald. Looters were filmed running through the streets with bags of rice and other food stocks. While police didn't manage to stop the looting in time, they did, however, succeed in preventing a crowd of protesters from breaking into the local Catholic archdiocese building, said the police source, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record.


In Port-au-Prince, tensions were high as young men carried off freezers, tables and other furniture from looted businesses in the Delmas neighborhood. The police confirmed an attack on the headquarters of the National Television Station of Haiti (TNH) in Delmas, but said officers responded in time before it could be totally ransacked. Still, a burning car was observed in the parking lot.


Also targeted was the home of former senator and current head of Fusion Social Democrats political party, Edmonde Supplice Beauzile. Reached by the Herald, Beauzile, a supporter of the current government, was frantically trying to confirm rumors that her home in Thomasin had been burned. She was unable to get in touch with anyone inside, she said. Later on Twitter, Beauzile lashed out. She accused three well-known opposition politicians of sending people to attack her home. "I do everything I can to work, I have never been involved in dirty things, no crimes, neither economic," she said.

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