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Biden official on Haiti: 'Incredibly complex, challenging.' Still no respite in sight

The Biden administration is defending the slow pace of financial sanctions against Haitian politicians and business leaders, saying that the United States’ evidentiary standard is much stricter than that of most countries and any decision needs to be corroborated by evidence.

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Canada to deploy Navy vessels to Haiti as violence worsens

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will deploy Navy vessels to Haiti to conduct surveillance and gather intelligence in upcoming weeks

The Independent UK

Haiti at fore as Caribbean leaders tackle regional issues

Top officials from Canada, the U.S. and Haiti are meeting behind closed doors to talk about the spiraling chaos in Haiti

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US arrests four suspects linked to assassination of Haiti’s Moise

Officials say, while ex-President Jovenel Moise was killed in Port-au-Prince, plot against him was mostly planned in US.

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OAS members recommit to helping Haiti through gang violence

The Organization of American States (OAS) on Friday passed a resolution to support Haiti on its path to long-delayed elections and help the Caribbean country manage widespread gang violence that is driving a humanitarian crisis.

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Haitian PM installs transition council to prepare for long-awaited elections

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Monday formally installed a transition council whose job will be to prepare for long-overdue elections in the Caribbean country, amid a humanitarian crisis driven by violence from armed gangs.

Reuters

Haiti appoints council amid push to hold general elections

Haiti’s prime minister has formally appointed a transition council charged with ensuring that long-awaited general elections are held in a country with no democratically elected institutions

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Canada deploys military aircraft over Haiti to assist police force with gangs

The Canadian government is escalating efforts to help Haiti’s national police, deploying a long-range military aircraft to provide intelligence on the country’s menacing gangs.

Miami Herald

In Haiti, gangs take control as democracy withers

At a time when democracy has withered in Haiti and gang violence has spiraled out of control, armed men like Jimmy Cherizier – known by the nickname Barbecue - have filled the power vacuum left by a crumbling government

The Independent UK

Haiti needs help fighting gangs. El Salvador has had success and is offering help

Nearly two years after declaring war on his nation’s violent gangs, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has seen his nation’s murder rate drop, his popularity soar and thousands of gang members put behind bars. Even pizza delivery has resumed in some once forbidden neighborhoods.

Miami Herald

Haitian authorities plead for calm. Promise better protection for cops after gang attacks

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian authorities vowed Friday to continue the fight against criminal armed gangs who this week plunged the volatile Caribbean nation into a new crisis after their “targeted” armed attacks left 14 cops dead in less than two weeks.

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Violence erupts in Haiti during protests by police officers after gangs kill 6 cops

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Violence erupted again in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday when protesters claiming to be members of the police took to the streets after the killing of six cops by gang members.

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Haiti police block streets, break into airport to protest officer killings

Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country's main airport to protest the recent killing of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation.

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Haitian police rebels protest gang killings of officers

Disgruntled rebel police officers are protesting in the streets of Haiti’s capital, blocking roads and shooting guns into the air

Miami Herald

Over the past three months Haiti has seen some of its worst gang-related violence in decades, affecting the functioning of the judiciary, impeding the government, challenging the United Nations efforts to fight illicit trafficking and keeping children from going to school, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in his latest report…

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UN chief insists on special armed forces as Haiti spirals

U.N. Secretary General António Guterres is insisting on the deployment of an international specialized armed force to Haiti and calling on governments to consider halting deportations as the country’s situation spirals

Miami Herald

They stole and they freed criminals. Now these Haiti judges are being singled out

In a historic blow to Haiti’s already dysfunctional judicial system, a judicial oversight board has rebuked more than two dozen judges for misconduct and paved the way for their firing — a clean-up of the nation’s judiciary that will likely affect its handling of pressing legal matters, from corruption to…

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As its only remaining elected officials depart, Haiti reaches a breaking point

In the years since Haiti last held a democratic election, the challenges facing the country have spiraled: gang violence, inflation, a cholera outbreak. "It's a collapse," one outgoing senator said.

Miami Herald

For 15 years, Milena Sandler and Joel Widmaier welcomed some of the biggest international names in jazz and R&B to Haiti amid political turmoil, fuel shortages and protests, musicians like Branford Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Joss Stone.

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Haiti crisis: how did it get so bad, what is the role of gangs, and is there a way out?

Caribbean country has been in turmoil since the assassination of the president, Jovenel Moïse, in 2021

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Haiti, rudderless with no elected leaders, needs our help — and also to help itself

Alarmed and clear-eyed Americans have said that they are fighting to preserve the foundation of our democracy. In fact, across most of the country, save Florida, they voted that sentiment in November’s general election.

The Independent UK

Political vacuum in Haiti deepens as senators' terms expire

Haiti has been stripped of its last democratically elected institution

Miami Herald

With not a single elected leader left, Haiti is becoming a textbook case of a ‘failed state’

For years, Haiti has suffered from a disastrous economy, a struggling police force and a practically invisible government.

The Independent UK

UN deputy urges countries to consider armed force for Haiti

The U.N. deputy secretary-general is urging every country “with capacity” to urgently consider the Haitian government’s request for an international armed force to help restore security and alleviate a humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation

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