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Since 2020, Haiti 's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war between two major groups and their allies: the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (FRG9 or G9) and the G-Pep. [2][3][24] The Government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid this ...
t. e. The 400 Mawozo gang is the largest gang in Haiti, mainly based in Ganthier and in c's Tabarre and Pétion-Ville. It largely consists of deportees, former leaders of opposition groups, former smugglers and police officers. In 2022, it aligned itself with "G-Pep" after its leader was extradited to the United States. [1]
Jimmy Chérizier, nicknamed Barbecue (Haitian Creole: Babekyou, born 30 March 1977), is a Haitian gang leader, former police officer, and warlord [3] who is the head of the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (Haitian Creole: Fòs Revolisyonè G9 an Fanmi e Alye), abbreviated as "G9" or "FRG9", a federation of over a dozen Haitian gangs based in Port-au-Prince.
How does gang money hurt Haiti? The gangs, along with many Haitian politicians and business people, earn money from an illicit brew of “taxes" gleaned through extortion, kidnappings, and drugs ...
July 26, 2024 at 5:30 AM. Ganthier, a rural community 28 miles east of Port-au-Prince and 14 miles from the Dominican Republic border, was among the last holdouts from gang control in Haiti. For ...
Port-au-Prince has been terrorized for years by frequent kidnappings, torture, and rape by the gangs. But today, as Haiti’s elite haggles over the composition of a presidential transitional ...
Now, the state has grown fatally weak and gangs are stepping in to take its place. Gang leaders, surreally, hold news conferences. And many see them as future stakeholders in negotiations over the country’s future. How did Haiti get here? A 1990s embargo was imposed after the military overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The embargo ...
As gangs continue to rampage across Haiti, the country's embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry remains blocked out of the country due to the closing of the airport. Here’s a look at how Haiti got to this point: January 2010 — Haiti is rocked by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, killing about 220,000 people and thrusting Haiti into a humanitarian ...