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UNCOVERED: Haiti s emboldened gangs could scuttle political solution | History Defined

Gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier speaks into his phone before a mission, as two of his men watch, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 5, 2024 (Credit: AFP)

After years of chaos in Haiti, ultraviolent gangs have turned into their own power centers, posing a massive challenge as the international community pushes a political solution for the country's crisis.

Caribbean leaders and key outside powers agreed at emergency talks in Jamaica on Monday to a plan that includes the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, and, on the security side, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered major new US funding for an international intervention.

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