Haiti

Honduran President Xiomara Castro delivers a speech during the United Nations General Assembly in which she heavily criticized her predecessor

News Elites and Crime

Latin American Leaders Voice Security Concerns At United Nations General Assembly

by Henry Shuldiner 23 Sep 202213 Oct 2023

a prisoner sells cigarettes to a fellow inmate at the National Penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Haitian Prisoners Face Starvation and Death

by Henry Shuldiner 19 Sep 202213 Oct 2023

Former acting-President Claude Joseph

Dominican Republic Takes Tentative Measures against Haiti Gangs

by Alessandro Ford 19 Sep 202213 Oct 2023

A boy runs down a street in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince.

Haiti’s Gangs Engage in Campaigns of Mass Sexual Violence

by Scott Mistler-Ferguson 23 Aug 202213 Oct 2023

The Kokorat San Ras gang kidnapped almost 30 people from a bus in Haiti

The Rise of Haiti’s Violent Rural Gangs

by Alessandro Ford 3 Aug 202213 Oct 2023

Bahamian authorities rescuing 25 Haitian migrants on July 24

News Human Smuggling

Haiti Migrants Dying Off Bahamas, Puerto Rico in Human Smuggling Disasters

by Douwe den Held 27 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Armed gang members in Port-au-Prince

G9 vs. G-PEP – The Two Gang Alliances Tearing Haiti Apart

by Scott Mistler-Ferguson 21 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Jimmy Cherizier, alias "Barbecue," founder of the G9

G9 and Family

by InSight Crime 18 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Scandal at Haiti Customs After Over 100,000 Rounds of Smuggled Ammunition Seized

by Alessandro Ford 8 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Some of the kidnapped foreign missionaries in Haiti after their escape

Kidnappings of UN Staff, Diplomats in Haiti Could Help Police Get More Funding

by Douwe den Held 6 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Over 100 guns were caught in 2017 being smuggled from Trinidad to Jamaica.

Can United Nations Help Jamaica Finally Curb Gun Violence?

by Scott Mistler-Ferguson 28 Jun 202213 Oct 2023

Haiti Gang Has Occupied Supreme Court for Almost a Week

by Alessandro Ford 16 Jun 202213 Oct 2023

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