Tag: Haiti
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Bukele Releases Footage of Haiti Helicopter Strike as 400 Mawozo Leader Remains at Large
Bukele has released footage of a helicopter strike on a property linked to Haiti’s 400 Mawozo gang. Leader Lanmò San Jou remains at large as casualty figures and the intervention’s wider impact face scrutiny.
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🇸🇻 Bukele Takes the Fight to Haiti: Can El Salvador’s President Bring Home Four Missing Salvadorans?
El Salvador is preparing to deploy more than 2,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran aviation technicians disappeared following a gang ambush. President Nayib Bukele has vowed to escalate operations until the men are returned. But can El Salvador’s hardline security model succeed in Haiti?
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🇭🇹 Erik Prince’s Haiti Operation Puts Private Security at the Center of the Battle for Port-au-Prince
Erik Prince’s private security operation in Haiti is entering the fight against armed gangs controlling large parts of Port-au-Prince. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh examines the controversial effort to restore security where previous international interventions have struggled.
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🇭🇹 The 30 People Indicted in the Killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse
By September 2026, the investigation into the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has expanded into a major U.S. federal case involving 30 defendants. The allegations describe a multinational conspiracy involving Haitian political and security figures, Colombian former soldiers, alleged financiers, and people accused of using U.S. COVID-relief funds to help finance the operation. The…
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🇭🇹 Haitian Student’s Death Highlights Human Cost of TPS Uncertainty in the United States
Springfield, Ohio — Pierre Damas Bel was only 20 years old, but he had already begun building a future around education, service and the pursuit of medicine. A high-achieving graduate of high school in Springfield, Ohio, Bel had recently begun studying physiology and neuroscience at Wright State University, with aspirations of eventually becoming a doctor.…
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🇭🇹 Deadly gang attack leaves Haiti’s Kenscoff community reeling
A deadly gang attack in Kenscoff, Haiti, killed residents and left others missing as armed men from the Viv Ansanm coalition raided the community late Sunday. Mayor Jean Massillon attributed the violence to the U.S.-designated terrorist group, while survivors highlighted the lack of effective police protection.The incident occurs amid severe insecurity, with gangs controlling an…
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🇭🇹 Haiti at a Crossroads: Can Security, Elections and National Unity Put the Country Back on Track?
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — August 21, 2026 — Haiti is approaching one of the most consequential moments in its modern history. After years of political instability, gang violence, displacement and economic hardship, the country is attempting to build a pathway back toward constitutional government and democratic elections. But the road ahead remains extremely difficult. Haiti is…
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🇭🇹 Haiti: From the World’s First Successful Slave Revolution to a Nation Trapped by Debt, Intervention and Gangs
By Pan-African News Desk Haiti’s modern crisis did not begin with the rise of today’s armed gangs. It did not begin with the assassination of a president, the collapse of political institutions, or the latest failed international intervention. Its roots reach much further back — to a revolution that terrified the colonial world, an independence…
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North Texas Men Accused of Plotting Atrocities on Haitian Island
In a case that echoes the darkest chapters of colonial violence, two North Texas men have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to invade a Haitian island, murder its male population, and enslave women and children for sexual purposes. The detailed plot, described by one criminologist as the most bizarre he has encountered in nearly three…