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Jimmy Chérizier, alias “Barbecue”, considered the most powerful gang leader in Haiti, set the scene this Tuesday, March 5, for the crisis currently affecting the poorest country on the American continent. The gangs, which control entire swaths of Haiti and the capital, announced last week that they were ganging up …

More than a dozen suspected gang members were stoned and burned alive on Monday by residents of a neighborhood in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, according to police and witnesses. This new outburst of deadly violence occurred when the police had just arrested these armed men, in a context of high …