海地民众举行反政府示威 5名美国人被捕

After more than a week of violence and unrest, anti-government protests have quieted in the streets of Port-au-Prince, though the opposition is calling for them to resume.

Demonstrators in Haiti's capital have been protesting high inflation and government corruption, and they've been calling for the nation's president to step down.

And now this - Haitian authorities have confirmed that they detained five U. S. citizens who were found with illegal weapons.

Miami Herald reporter Jacqueline Charles is in the Haitian capital. Hi, Jacqueline. Hi. How are you?

I'm good, thanks. Thanks for taking the time for us this morning. Who are these U. S. citizens who are in custody?

Well, some of them are former members of the U. S. military. They're veterans. Another one, you know, had a contract - he's a subcontractor with the Department of Homeland Security.

One of the guys also runs an off-road engineering firm. I mean, really what we're trying to find out is do they all work for some sort of private security firm, geopolitical conflict management firm?

That hasn't been established yet. These gentlemen were not talking when they were stopped by police on Sunday.

They said that they were here on a, quote-unquote, government mission. They did not specify which government,

but then they did tell the police that somebody - their bosses was going to call their boss. And so the implication there is that, you know, somebody high up.