Three under–the–radar stories from the Americas highlight Haiti’s election struggles, Chile’s new biodiversity park, and ...

Haiti has been mired for decades by political instability, made worse in recent years by criminal gangs that have grown more powerful. Gangs now control 85 percent of the capital Port-au-Prince ...

Gang violence, hunger, and political instability threaten Haiti's survival as a state as the UN calls for urgent international security and peacekeeping interventions.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s children are increasingly caught in the crossfire of gang violence, forced to carry ...

Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier, leader of Haiti's powerful gang coalition ... even though the gang didn't sign the April 2023 political Accord, as reported by the Miami Herald. This inclusion has ...

The proposal submitted to CARICOM referenced Viv Ansanm, Haiti’s most powerful gang coalition, noting that while the group did not sign the April political accord establishing the transitional ...

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people — a record in the Caribbean nation.

Gangs in Haiti killed at least 5,600 people last year, according to a new United Nations report. The report from the Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights said an additional ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that's home to most of the country's elite and had been largely untouched by criminals, and police have demanded ...

Residents from rural communities in Kenscoff, Haiti were forced to flee after armed gangs began attacking the mountainside region above Port-au-Prince on Monday, January 27, 2025. Johnny Fils ...

As hundreds of armed gang members, entrenched in the hills above Haiti’s capital, await orders to attack the last enclaves not currently under their control, the multinational fight to end their ...