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Since 2020, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war. The government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid this conflict, [1] with gangs reportedly controlling up to 90% of the city by 2023. [37]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars, which have spiraled since the 2021 assassination of the country’s president. As gangs ...
The ongoing gang insurgency in Port-au-Prince, Haiti has led to more container cargo going to the port in Cap-Haïtien, where on April 5, 2024 police seized dozens of weapons including assault ...
English: Map of the gang war in Haiti. Areas of gang activity between 2023–2024. Gang territories (in the respective colors) Date: 13 March 2024: Source:
Florida is home to more than 276,000 people born in Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of others in the state have roots on the island nation. Hundreds of thousands of others in the state have roots on ...
One of the gangs fighting for power in the city is 400 Mawozo, which formed in 2016, and rose to prominence in 2021 for kidnapping several American missionaries. Since then, however, the gang has become the largest gang in Haiti. [1] In 2015, a man named Claudy Celestin created the Chen Mechan gang, with his alias of the same name. [2]
President Joe Biden has identified Haiti as a critical choke point for drugs flowing into the United States, naming it last month to a list of 23 countries designated as “major drug transit or ...
Zoe Pound was founded in 1990 in response to growing attacks on Haitian Americans, initially acting as a vigilante self-defense group before morphing into a gang by the mid-1990s. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Throughout its early years, members engaged in piracy , targeting Haitian trawlers throughout the Miami River .