{"id":10501,"date":"2023-04-22T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T12:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10501"},"modified":"2023-04-22T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T12:24:27","slug":"haitis-gang-violence-crisis-briefly-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10501","title":{"rendered":"Haiti\u2019s gang violence crisis, briefly explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Gang violence has killed more than 530 Haitians this year<\/a> and 187 in the past two weeks alone<\/a>, as the security and political situation in the Caribbean nation continues to devolve. Decades of corrupt leadership and weakened democratic institutions \u2014 supported by the United States \u2014 have brought a state of terror and lawlessness to Haiti without an achievable political solution or even an end to the violence in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The violence, concentrated in Haiti\u2019s capital, Port-au-Prince, and the surrounding areas, is caused by political and economic factors including the decimation of the country\u2019s largest economic driver,agriculture, and subsequent urban migration, small arms proliferation, and a political class willing to weaponize Haiti\u2019s struggles to cling to power. The person nominally in charge of the country, acting Prime Minister and President Ariel Henry, lacks a true mandate to power and has proven incapable of managing the chaos, instead proposing to deploy the country\u2019s young and fragile military<\/a> to maintain order.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Violence by groups and gangs connected to the state is not new in Haiti, but a number of factors have contributed to the gangs\u2019 power at the present moment. Political leaders as far back as Fran\u00e7ois \u201cPapa Doc\u201d Duvalier, Haiti\u2019s populist elected leader-turned-dictator from 1957 through 1971, have formed and utilized armed groups external to national security forces for protection or to enforce their own agendas and self-interest, according to an October report<\/a> from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The present gangs are primarily affiliated with two groups, G-Pep and G9, which fight for control of Port-au-Prince. An estimated 60 percent of the capital <\/a>is under the control of these groups, which terrorize civilians not only with threats of murder, but also abduction for ransom, extortion, and sexual violence, often at random.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/2023\/3\/26\/23657163\/haitis-gang-violence-crisis-explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Gang violence has killed more than 530 Haitians this year and 187 in the past two weeks alone, as the security and political situation in the Caribbean nation continues to devolve. Decades of corrupt leadership and weakened democratic institutions \u2014 supported by the United States \u2014 have brought a state of terror and lawlessness to Haiti without an achievable political solution or even an end to the violence in sight.
\nThe violence, concentrated in Haiti\u2019s capital, Port-au-Prince, and the surrounding areas, is caused by political and economic factors including the decimation of the country\u2019s largest economic driver, agriculture, and subsequent urban migration, small arms proliferation, and a political class willing to weaponize Haiti\u2019s struggles to cling to power. The person nominally in charge of the country, acting Prime Minister and President Ariel Henry, lacks a true mandate to power and has proven incapable of managing the chaos, instead proposing to deploy the country\u2019s young and fragile military to maintain order.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Violence by groups and gangs connected to the state is not new in Haiti, but a number of factors have contributed to the gangs\u2019 power at the present moment. Political leaders as far back as Fran\u00e7ois \u201cPapa Doc\u201d Duvalier, Haiti\u2019s populist elected leader-turned-dictator from 1957 through 1971, have formed and utilized armed groups external to national security forces for protection or to enforce their own agendas and self-interest, according to an October report from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.<\/p>\n

The present gangs are primarily affiliated with two groups, G-Pep and G9, which fight for control of Port-au-Prince. An estimated 60 percent of the capital is under the control of these groups, which terrorize civilians not only with threats of murder, but also abduction for ransom, extortion, and sexual violence, often at random.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1224,1327,847],"class_list":["post-10501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-gang-violence","tag-haiti","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10502,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions\/10502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}