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U.S. officials have announced they are aware of “reported bribery attempts” aimed at destabilizing Haiti, raising concerns ...
Residents have expressed relief after drivers on the route between Port-de-Paix and Port-au-Prince resumed their operations—ending nearly three years of inactivity. However, gang-imposed ransoms of up ...
Haiti’s government says it plans to send 400 police officers to Brazil next month for training as gang violence overwhelms ...
A Haitian American Navy veteran and his police officer cousin who were working in Haiti with Studebaker, an American military ...
For four years Jean Fritz Dieu fought to stay alive, traveling by motorbike over rugged mountains and through gang-controlled ...
A group of more than 30 U.S. House Democrats led by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Miramar, the only Haitian American member of Congress, and Gregory Meeks of New York City is demanding urgent federal ...
If the government doesn’t put its head together to push back the gangs, they will head toward Belladère and then we will be ...
Firearms trafficked from the U.S. into Haiti are arming powerful gangs that have overrun the capital, Port-au-Prince, ...
In December, the U.N. estimated that gangs controlled 60% of Haiti’s capital, but nowadays most on the streets of Port-au-Prince say that number is closer to 100%.
Haiti struggles with poverty, a legacy of colonialism, and European and U.S. interference. But experts blame the latest violence in part on street gangs' use by rulers.
In December, the U.N. estimated that gangs controlled 60% of Haiti’s capital, but nowadays most on the streets of Port-au-Prince say that number is closer to 100%.