The Port-au-Prince international jazz festival, traditionally held in late January, has been postponed indefinitely due to gang violence that has plagued the Haitian capital for months, event organizers said Monday.
"We can't take the risk, either for the 150 musicians or for our teams or for the public," Milena Sandler, director of the Haiti Jazz foundation which organizes the festival, told AFP.
Long confined to the poorer districts of the capital, gangs have in recent months extended their reach and increased the number of kidnappings. In this chaotic context, the United States and Canada have recommended that their citizens living in Haiti have an emergency plan to leave the country."If the situation in the country does not allow for the usual format of concerts over eight days, we will still have something and it won't be virtual," she said.
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