Mapping Conflict: Haiti on the Verge of Gang Takeover

Mapping Conflict: Haiti on the Verge of Gang Takeover

In this video, Diego Da Rin explains how the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 deepened a protracted security crisis, how the gangs have been able to expand their control of Port-au-Prince and how close they are to overthrowing the transitional government.

With Haiti collapsing as gangs gain control, South Florida lawmakers press US to restore stability

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including several from South Florida, are sounding the alarm about Haiti’s growing and paralyzing security crisis. In a letter this month to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the lawmakers say gangs, including the Viv Ansanm coalition, control over 85% of the capital city of Port-au-Prince “and are rapidly expanding into previously stable areas.” Read the full letter here. “Haiti is on the verge of collapse with vi…

Food Vendor Avenges Family Members by Killing 40 Gang Members with Poisoned Empanadas

A Haitian woman who had lost family members to a violent criminal gang took her revenge by poisoning 40 gang members with tainted empanadas.

In Haiti, a woman who lost her family to gang members killed dozens of gang members at once with food laced with poison. According to foreign media outlets such as the Daily Star on the 7th (local time), a woman who gave dumplings laced with pesticide to more than 40 gang members in a village in the Caribbean island nation of Haiti turned herself in to the police after the crime. The woman is a member of the 'Bib Ansan' gang that took over the v…