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"400 Mawozo": The largest gang in Haiti, mainly based in Croix-des-Bouquets, Ganthier and in Port-au-Prince's Tabarre and Pétion-Ville. It has branches in Gros-Morne and the Dominican Republic and has a waiting list for aspiring members. It largely consists of deportees, former leaders of opposition groups, former smugglers and police officers.
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 ...
Haiti’s powerful gangs are evolving, trading kidnappings-for-ransom for drug trafficking, she said. And just as high-caliber firearms are freely flowing into the country, so too are illicit ...
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 ...
A gruesome hours-long gang attack in Haiti a couple of days ago left dozens dead, torching homes and cars, while forcing thousands more to run for their lives, in the latest blow to a country that ...
Rape—which only became a criminal offense in Haiti in 2005—is being used by gangs as a means of humiliating those living in rival gang neighborhoods. Abortion is illegal in Haiti, so rape victims are legally required to carry any resulting pregnancy to term [ 109 ] in a country with one of the highest mortality rates for mothers outside of ...
Haiti is beset by gang violence and corruption but Garry Pierre-Pierre, who spent part of his childhood there, says there’s a way to begin to ease the current crisis. Opinion: Why gangs hold so ...
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [ 10 ] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [ 13 ]