For the third time this month thousands of citizens gathered in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Sunday for a protest against Michel Martelly’s government and the poor living standards of the nation.

This is just one in a series of protests that has shaken the country during the last two weeks. The critique is angled at President Martelly and his failed promises to re-build the nation and improve the living standard of the country’s poorest after the devastating earthquake in 2010. The people are complaining about difficult living conditions and high food prices in one of the poorest nations of Latin America as well as allegations of corruption.

President Martelly, a former pop music star, promised free housing and education while running for presidency. According to the protesters he has not lived up to his promises of improving their life standards after the earthquake. “Martelly must go. It’s only a clique of his friends making money”, said groups of young people from the poorest neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince while waving football-style red cards to suggest that Martelly has committed too many fouls since he was elected president in 2011.

The mobilisation came 21 years after the military coup the Caribbean country suffered in 1991 and also on the 21^st anniversary of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed for the first time.

Aristide was Haiti’s first democratically elected leader and sat for two terms. He returned to Haiti in 2011 after seven years in exile and has since kept a low profile, which has lead to wide speculations of his political relevance. He remains a champion of Haiti’s poor.

Tens of thousands of people have joined anti-government marches around the country, with Argentines marching for “security, liberty, and justice”. The protests, known as cacerolazos, due to the tradition of banging pots and pans, began at 8pm in a number of cities.

The biggest demonstration took place in Buenos Aires, where marches started from different points around the capital, arriving at Plaza de Mayo and the Casa Rosada where numbers are said to have topped 200,000, according to unofficial figures.

Banners could be seen which included demands against “insecurity” and the possibility of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner standing for re-election. There were also petitions for greater transparency in official statistics on things such as inflation, and the lifting of restrictions on access to dollars.

Protests also took place in the cities of Córdoba, Rosario, Mar del Plata, Bariloche, and Mendoza, among others.

The effort to mobilise Argentines into marching on 13th September began a number of weeks ago on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.